Editing Beta blocker (section)

== Performance-enhancing use ==
Because they promote lower heart rates and reduce tremors, beta blockers have been used in professional sports where high accuracy is required, including [[Target archery|archery]], [[Shooting sports|shooting]], [[golf]]<ref name="ogrady">{{cite news |author=Tim Glover |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/golf-ogrady-says-players-use-betablockers-drugs-helped-win-majors-1368307.html |title=Golf: O'Grady says players use beta-blockers: Drugs 'helped win majors' |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |access-date=2017-03-28 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925223906/http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/golf-ogrady-says-players-use-betablockers-drugs-helped-win-majors-1368307.html |archive-date=September 25, 2015 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> and [[snooker]].<ref name="ogrady"/> Beta blockers are banned in some sports by the [[International Olympic Committee]].<ref name="ref4">{{cite web | author=World Anti-Doping Agency | title=The World Anti-Doping Code: The 2006 Prohibited List International Standard | url=https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/WADA_Prohibited_List_2006_EN.pdf | date=September 19, 2005 | publisher=[[World Anti-Doping Agency]] | access-date=2017-02-10 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211160033/https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/WADA_Prohibited_List_2006_EN.pdf | archive-date=February 11, 2017 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> In the [[2008 Summer Olympics]], [[Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol|50-metre pistol]] silver medalist and [[Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air pistol|10-metre air pistol]] bronze medalist [[Kim Jong-su]] tested positive for [[propranolol]] and was stripped of his medals.<ref name="Guardian NK Doping">{{Cite news| vauthors = Scott M |title=Olympics: North Korea's Kim Jong-su loses medals after positive drugs test |url= https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/aug/15/olympics2008.drugsinsport|newspaper=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited|access-date=7 March 2018|language=en|date=15 August 2008}}</ref>

For similar reasons, beta blockers have also been used by surgeons.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Elman MJ, Sugar J, Fiscella R, Deutsch TA, Noth J, Nyberg M, Packo K, Anderson RJ | display-authors = 6 | title = The effect of propranolol versus placebo on resident surgical performance | journal = Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society | volume = 96 | pages = 283–91; discussion 291–4 | year = 1998 | pmid = 10360293 | pmc = 1298399 }}</ref> Classical musicians have commonly used beta blockers since the 1970s to reduce [[stage fright]].<ref>{{cite news|date=August 16, 2013|title=Musicians Use Beta Blockers as Performance-Enabling Drugs|publisher=WQXR|url=https://www.wqxr.org/story/312920-musicians-use-beta-blockers-relieve-stage-fright/|access-date=March 11, 2021}}</ref>