It is a truism that great athletes usually die young.

If they are not cancelled, every American athlete will die.

The athletes, both baseball players, died shortly after they stopped using steroids.

If you have an athlete die, you change the coach.

"When a black athlete dies, people do not believe it's not either guns or drugs."

Several professional athletes have died from diseases that were a result of using these chemicals.

His health rapidly worsened and the young athlete died on 5 February at the age of seventeen due to what was later identified as bronchopneumonia.

"This kind of screening is easy, it's inexpensive and it could probably catch many heart abnormalities early, before the athlete dies."

Just a few years ago, an athlete known to be a steroid user died of liver cancer.

But what strikes us now is not even how often athletes died, but how willing to die they were.