Leif Gøran Jenssen (born 19 March 1948) is a former Norwegian

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. He became Olympic Champion in

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...

in the

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class.Profile: "Leif Jenssen"
- ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on December 26, 2007)
- (Retrieved on December 26, 2007) He obtained silver medal three times in the World Championships, in

1970s File:1970s decade montage.jpg, Clockwise from top left: President of the United States, U.S. President Richard Nixon doing the V sign#The V for Victory campaign and the victory-freedom sign, V for Victory sign after his resignation from office fo ...

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...

and

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of President of the United States, United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom K ...

. Jenssen was elected Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year 1971. Until January 1973 use of

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s was not prohibited. Jenssen has been open about his use of steroids until the ban, including during the 1972 Olympics. He started using

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prescribed by his general practitioner in 1970. He stated that he has no bad conscience about the use, as he estimates that 49 of 50 of the world's best weightlifters used steroids at the time. He regards it as impossible to have won the Olympic medal without use of the performance-enhancing drugs, but has stated that he believes that if no-one had used them, including himself, he would still have won.

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* 1948 births Norwegian male weightlifters Doping cases in weightlifting Norwegian sportspeople in doping cases Weightlifters at the 1968 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1972 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Norway Living people Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics World Weightlifting Championships medalists Sportspeople from Fredrikstad 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-weightlifting-bio-stub