"Vitamin V" from Pfizer

Athletes face Viagra ban as sex pill found to boost performance on track as well as in bedroom

By Colin Fernandez
Last updated at 6:06 PM on 22nd June 2008

Viagra's use as a performance enhancer in the bedroom is well known.

But now athletes are now finding the little blue pill improves their abilities on the sports field.

The World Anti-Doping Agency, the body that monitors the use of drugs that enhance sporting prowess, is considering adding Viagra to its list of illegal substances.

The pill is currently not an illegal substance in world sport.

But athletes have found that the drug, normally prescribed as a cure impotence, boosts blood flow to their lungs.

WADA is to conduct research into the effects of the drug, but the results are expected until next year.

So competitors at the Beijing Olympics this year will still be able to take Viagra, which has come to be nicknamed 'Vitamin V' in sporting circles.

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