Out of the 191 cases The Anti-Doping Database has registered where athletes has been suspended for life, 58 participated in the sport of Athletics. The sport is also the one with the most cases with more than 1800 registered in the database. Which means approximately two percent of all suspended were given a lifetime ban. The sport is governed by The International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF), but not all suspensions has been handed by the organization. Steroids Most cases involving steroids has caused lifetime suspensions, where Stanozolol - the substance Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson tested positive for during the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 - is the most commonly used. 20 US athletes has been suspended for life. That is four more than Russia and twice as many as the Czech Republic. Sprinter Jerome Young is the last American athletics athlete to receive a lifetime ban. Young tested positive for EPO at the Gaz de France in 2004. Only two athletes is suspended for life after testing positive for EPO, the other being Italian Roberto Barbi who was banned in 2008. 35 cyclists and 34 weightlifters has been banned for life. Fewer lifetime bans Since 2008 the number of athletes who has been suspended for life has dropped. That year 20 athletes alone was given the lifetime ban. Six years later the number has dropped to only three. In 2012 the number was 12. Not surprisingly most men has been given the lifetime ban. Out of the 191 cases, 166 - or 86 percent - was men, while the rest - 27 (14 percent) were women.