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    Crackdown on Drug Use in E-Game Tournaments

    It's not a sport until you have to test for performance enhancing drugs. Anti-doping policy comes to competitive video gaming.  Cycling has Lance Armstrong, baseball A­Rod. Now the sport many of you likely have never seen has its own poster child for doping; his name is Kory Friesen and the sport is competitive video gaming.

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    KCRW placeholderBy Barbara Bogaev • Jul 24, 2015 • 9m Listen

    It's not a sport until you have to test for performance enhancing drugs. Anti-doping policy comes to competitive video gaming. Cycling has Lance Armstrong, baseball A­Rod. Now the sport many of you likely have never seen has its own poster child for doping; his name is Kory Friesen and the sport is competitive video gaming. Electronic sports has a performance-enhancing drug problem, and now they have an anti­doping program to go with it.

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