6/19/08

Balazs Koranyi was an Olympic semi-finalist at the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games for Hungary and since 2004 has been a Budapest-based correspondent, covering mainly political and business news. He will cover the Beijing Games for Reuters. In the following story he recounts his experiences of performance-enhancing drugs in the athletic community.

By Balazs Koranyi

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - I was first offered performance-enhancing drugs in 1998, after breaking the Hungarian 800-metre record and making the European championship finals.