Mark McGwire admitted during the last week that he did used steroids during his career that was highlighted by 583 home runs but now wants every one to forget the tales of steroids to move ahead.

This admission has once again reaffirmed the fact that there is a relationship between steroids and sports. It is believed that baseball fans would find it difficult to forget the steroid tales that were once related to their favorite stars.

From Freep.com:

“I hope you all can accept this,” McGwire said. “Let’s all move on from this. Baseball is great right now, baseball is better.”

McGwire, the new Cardinals hitting coach, is getting support from his boss, manager Tony La Russa, and St. Louis‘ best player, Albert Pujols.

“Go talk to Mark, I think he cleared up everything, he closed the doors,” Pujols told reporters at the team’s Winter Warm-Up. “If you want to reopen those doors I know the right guy. Go talk to Mark about it. … There’s 300,000 people that just died in Haiti and you guys just want to concentrate on Mark McGwire. Come on, give me a break.”

The admission by McGwire has also blasted the claims of anti-doping and government officials that have been long in place for curbing the use of anabolic steroids in sports.

Sports Ministers from 53 member states of the Commonwealth met in Athens on the eve of Olympics to formulate plans to make sure that sports and steroids do not go together in future editions of Olympics. An action plan was formulated in this high-profile meeting in order to be be a part of the worldwide drive to curb drugs from sports to express a a commitment to the worldwide anti-doping campaign.

From News-Medical.Net:

UK Sports Minister Richard Caborn chaired the conference. He called drug abuse in sport a “cancer“.

“Countries like the UK have valuable experience which we are only too happy to share with other Commonwealth nations.”

“We are determined that there must be no weak links in the fight against drugs in sport.”

The conference also committed Commonwealth countries to promote full participation by women in sport.

The meeting also saw a promise being made by the United Kingdom, which boats of two WADA-recognized doping laboratories, which will assist developing nations by passing critical information about drugs and best sporting practices.

However, it will be interesting to note how the Commonwealth will aim to curb steroid usage activities as steroids have became inseparable part of modern-day sports. The fact that more and more sportsmen are taking steroids and even sporting stalwarts advocating the legalization of steroids in sports, the hopes and plans of the Commonwealth may take a backseat.