During the recent Winter Olympics my eye was caught by a story that ski jumpers were allegedly injecting themselves in the penis with acid in order to improve sporting performance. The drug in questio

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I grew up in Greenland skiing and shooting, and competed for Denmark in biathlon at the Milano Cortina Olympics. But the sport I love is becoming harder to recognize as a winter sport at all. At the w