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Knud Enemark Jensen

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Knud Enemark Jensen (November 30 1936, Århus - August 26 1960, Rome) was a Danish cyclist who participated in the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. He collapsed during a race, fractured his skull, and was pronounced dead in a nearby Rome hospital shortly thereafter. The autopsy showed he had taken amphetamine and another drug, Roniacol (Ronicol/Roniacol Retard, (Nicotinyl alcohol tartrate) A direct-acting peripheral vasodilator that causes flushing and may decrease blood pressure.) [1] (He was also reported as swallowing 8 pills of phenylisopropylamine, 15 pills of amphetamine and coffee.[2])

His death led the International Olympic Committee to form a medical commission in 1967 and institute drug testing at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, and at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico.

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  • [1]- Olympics timeline
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  1. ^ Online Medical Dictionary, Ronicol Retard
  2. ^ Historical Evolution of Doping Phenomenon by Lorella Vittozzi (ITA)
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