New feature for us at The Tickr. The Tickr’s Top 5’s. Once a week we plan on delivering a topical yet grossly unconventional Top 5 list for your enjoyment. First up, Top 5 Most Infamous Performance Enhancing Athletes aka How track stars and baseball players get ahead.

5. Alex Rodriguez

Currently one of the best all-around baseball players in MLB. In February 2009, Rodriguez admitted to steroid use from 2001-2003. His admission came after Sports Illustrated named Rodriguez as one of the 104 Major League players to test positive after a 2003 inquiry.

4. Ben Johnson

He Cheetah all the time, nuff said.

3. Marion Jones

In October 2007, Jones admitted to using steroids during the Balco scandal. She was stripped of her five Olympic medals and sentenced to six months in prison and 200 hours of community service.

2. Mark McGwire

In 1998 Mark McGwire was centre stage as he dueled with Sammy Sosa battling it out for the MLB home run record. McGwire finished the season with 70 home runs. The disgraced star waited over a decade to divulge that he used PED’s, finally admitting this week that he used steroids on and off for over ten years.

1.  Jose Canseco

In 2005, Canseco published his tell-all book titled “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big.” In his book, Canseco admitted to using steroids while also specifically naming teammates who had taken performance-enhancing drugs, and as much as Canseco is to blame for the emergence of PED’s his book brought awareness to an epidemic in Major League Baseball.