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Doping in Handball

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So far doping has not been a major issue in handball. Endurance sports such as cross-country skiing, cycling, or athletics have been influenced tremendously by doping and the artificial improvement of physical performance. Since the introduction of modern handball as an Olympic sport at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, handball players are tested regularly for doping.

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  1. Department of Trauma-, Hand-, Plastic- and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Kai Fehske M.A.

  2. Reha-Zentrum Hess, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany

    Christoph Lukas M.D.

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  1. Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, United Kingdom

    Lior Laver

  2. Department of Surgery, Aspetar - Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar

    Philippe Landreau

  3. Clinique d’Eich, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg Clinique d’Eich, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Romain Seil

  4. Aspetar - Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, Doha, Qatar

    Nebojsa Popovic

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Fehske, K., Lukas, C. (2018). Doping in Handball. In: Laver, L., Landreau, P., Seil, R., Popovic, N. (eds) Handball Sports Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55892-8_42

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