Georges Laraque described his difficult life of sports in a book “The story of the NHL’s unlikeliest tough guy”. He desired to tell about his life to others. Georges Laraque noted also about intake of anabolic steroids in the National Hockey League (NHL). These aspects about intake of steroids by the NHL’s players seemed to be very interesting. The Canadian press published just the quotes related to this eternal subject. The rest of the book was ignored.
Georges Laraque told in an interview that he had never used performance-enhancing drugs. Moreover, the author noted that he hadn’t mentioned any names of the athletes that had used steroids. The book is indeed an autobiography.
The author mentions about several ways to determine whether a hockey player uses steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs or not. Here are 2 ways mentioned by him:
1. A hockey player who gains more than 40 pounds in a short period of time must be utilizing performance-enhancing drugs.
2. A hockey player whose weight has been reduced significantly in short period of time to correspond to the rules of the Winter Olympics must be taking performance-enhancing drugs.
Of course, all athletes, including hockey players, know that they will be tested for steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs by the WADA. That’s why they stop taking the forbidden medicines certain time before the Olympics. It helps them to avoid probability of testing positive for these medicines.
But this is not the chief idea of the book. The author desired to show that a child has to put immense efforts to become a famous professional athlete enduring racial intolerance and bullying. But the press doesn’t pay attention on this subject. The press is always ready to publish stories related to administration of steroids in sports.
It was not the purpose of the author to to make public the names of the hockey players who used steroids.
Of course, the media tries to convince George Laraque to name steroid users of the NHL.
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