...Steroids in Sports While many are attracted to steroids for an improvement in athletic performance many athletes now a days are taking steroids, why is that? Is it to make a squad, or impress a member of the opposite sex? There is not a right or wrong answer to why athletes feel the need to take performance enhancing drugs. However ones psychological state, genetic mishaps, or even performance pressures from the coaching staff, can lead an athlete to steroids. Issues of cheating or winning at any cost, are becoming more and more common among athletes of all ages and levels of ability. The use of steroids is one of the biggest issues in the current debate whether or not it is fair for drug-free athletes to have to compete with athletes that break the law and take illegal steroids. Allowing those with an unfair advantage to compete can pressure drug-free athletes to use steroids to remain competitive. The use of steroids by athletes over the last decade and a half is well documented and proven no matter how many tried to deny their cheating in order to get a leg up on their competitors. Steroids continue to taint the sports world as we speak. It has come to light that baseball superstars Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, and Mark McGwire have admitted using preforming enhancing drugs during their baseball careers. Each athlete’s statistics ballooned to numbers never achieved before by prior athletes. While some athletes deny knowing they were doing anything illegal or cheating they...
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...Athletes enhancing their performance are common in sports today. Headlines seem to pop up every month about athletes doping across various sports. Through the use of injections or pills, the use of drugs in sports goes back almost to the invention of the concept of sports. Sports like wrestling, soccer, American football and cycling are among the many sports that are influenced by doping. These performance enhancing drugs make the body produce more red blood cells and only last for a short period of time, contrasting to the regular steroid. These drugs allow the athlete to obtain more oxygen into their system – enhancing their performance for a few hours before returning to their normal state. More and more athletes are doping, with Lance Armstrong...
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...Sports and Performance Enhancing Drugs John Alvarez Student #0588681 Essay 2 April 1, 2015 PHI – 010 Professor Andrea Yusim Words: 1,519 In a country that is obsessed with winning and competition, athletes, teams and even fans have tried to gain an advantage against their competition. As athletes become bigger, stronger and faster, the margin and window of opportunity to become the best athlete in their respective sports is surely becoming smaller and smaller. Many people will argue that performance enhancing drugs will help in promoting player health and recovery and that sports in general will benefit overall. In this paper, I will argue that the argument in favor of performance enhancement drug use is not valid because performance enhancing drugs are unethical, create unfair competitive advantages and do not promote the very essence of the value of sports which is hard work and team work. Team and individual sports in the United States is a very important part of culture. Athletes are revered for their prowess and mastery of their respective sports and are at times treated as demi-gods. Individual teams and entire leagues depend on these very athletes to compete at the highest level and with the utmost sense of integrity in order to show that their leagues are played ethically. So not only are athletes expected to be at their very best, they are also expected to do so without compromising the integrity of the sport such as cheating by using PEDs. In the article...
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...Ethical issues regarding the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports In the history of 20th century sports, specifically in the post World War 2 era, there has been an ever increasing use of performance enhancing drugs in all avenues of sport. Sports have become money making machine for both athletes and big business and the “win at all costs” attitude which has permeated itself into all aspects of professional and college level athletics. Winners make money, losers don’t. The temptation of fame, notoriety and million dollar contracts in all venues of sport is a lure for many athletes. Elite professional athletes are worshiped in today’s society. This paper will elaborate on the use of performance enhancing drugs in the sporting world and the associated sports ethical issues. It is a majority belief in all sporting circles that the “true” spirit of sportsmanship does not allow any aspect of performance enhancing drugs. There are several arguments both in favor and against the use of performance enhancing drugs which will be presented and discussed in this paper. While addressing this ethical issue, we need to define the term ethics. Ethics can be defined as the socially accepted norms and values. These norms and values are varied from society to society and are based on culture and tradition. Ethics also could be defined as the unsaid, un-written and understood laws that prevail in a society. Ethics also cover what is right and what is wrong in society and teaches...
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...hard in practice, and the weight room and has earned a starting position on his team. The team has recently been winning more, and many of the players are using a new performance enhancing drug. Paul’s teammates are always reminding him that it is not a banned substance, and the coach has turned a blind eye to the whole issue. Paul told me that his coach is making some changes, and he may lose his starting position. He is starting to think about actually taking this drug so he does not lose his spot. The dilemma is that Paul could just take the drug, and get to keep his position as a starter. Since the drug is not listed as banned, and the coach ignores its use, it should a good choice. No one will ever know. There are a few things that could be done to resolve this dilemma: * I could tell Paul to stand his ground, and not take the drug. He could let his talent stand on its own. I would tell him that taking the drugs could be dangerous, and its simply wrong. * Paul could go to the athletic director to let them know what is going on. This may not be a suitable decision because of his loyalty to his teammates. This is a delicate situation, and it is to be taken seriously. Core Beliefs As a Christian, the issue is clear. Regardless of what sport you play, performance enhancing drugs should never be used. They are illegal. Congress has banned...
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...Youssef Haggag Prof. Brian Altano WRT-101-098WB January 14, 2016 Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports Have you ever considered the pros and cons of Performance Enhancing Drugs?! Nowadays Performance Enhancing Drugs are so popular in athlete's life and athletics have a big temptation about it and its effect however its forbidden in the united states unless it is used for specific treatment. Decades ago the facts of performance enhancers have shown us a lot about what these drugs can do to our bodies and how badly does it affect the body. Since they discovered These stimuli they tried it at the beginning on animals for example the racing dogs and horses then athletes started to use it after seeing its crazy effect on the performance and the shape of the body. In the first place, according to researches and surveys about the advantages and disadvantages of Performance Enhancing Drugs on health some people think that “If each of us ought to be free to assume risks that we think are worth taking, shouldn't athletes have the same freedom as anyone else? In particular, if athletes prefer the gains in performance allegedly provided by the use of steroids, along with the increased risk of harm to the alternative of less risk and worse performance, what gives anyone the right to interfere with their choice? After all, if we should not forbid smokers from risking their health by smoking, why should we prohibit track stars or weightlifters from taking risks with their health in...
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...Another question throughout this study is, how do young athletes communicate about banned substances’ in sport? There has been little effort within the social sciences to provide insight into whether and how athletes communicate among themselves about morally contested topics. In an article, A Frame Analysis of Communication About Doping Among Talented, Young, Norwegian Road Cyclists by Renslo Sandvik, Ase Strandbu, and Sigmund Loland from the Norwegian School of Sport Science attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Through focus group interviews, the authors explore how a group of young, Norwegian road cyclists communicate about doping. The article demonstrates that this communication is strongly norm-regulated and often appears as brief,...
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...BUILDING EVIDENCE-BASED ARGUMENTS DEVELOPING CORE PROFICIENCIES ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS / LITERACY UNIT GRADE 7 “Doping can be that last 2 percent.” OD LL DUCATION www.odelleducation.com OD LL DUCATION Page 1 EVIDENCE-BASED ARGUMENTATION Literacy – the integrated abilities to read texts closely, to investigate ideas and deepen understanding through research, to make and evaluate evidence-based claims, and to communicate one’s perspective in a reasoned way – is fundamental to participation in civic life. Thus, the importance of a literate citizenry was understood and expressed by Thomas Jefferson early in the life of our democratic nation. Today, students face the prospect of participating in a civic life that stretches beyond the boundaries of a single nation and has become increasingly contentious, characterized by entrenched polarization in response to complex issues. Citizens have access to a glut of information (some of which is nothing more than opinion passed off as fact) and are often bombarded by bombast rather than engaged in reasoned and civil debate. Learning the skills and habits of mind associated with argumentation – how to conceive and communicate “arguments to support claims, using valid reasoning and sufficient evidence” [CCSS W1] as well as how to “delineate and evaluate the argument[s]” and “the validity of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence” presented by others [CCSS R8] – is therefore...
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...The agency was formed as an initiative of the International Olympic Committee in 1999 in response to the previous year’s doping events that horrified the world of cycling and the world of sport alike. Since then, WADA has overseen anti-doping testing, research and education as a means of combatting doping and creating an environment in which athletes may ‘play true’. The foundation of WADAs fight for doping-free sport is the WADC of 2015, which details the disciplinary action to be taken against athletes who dope, what doping is, which substances are to be banned under the Prohibited List and the process for the analysis and collection of an athlete’s samples. To be included on the Prohibited List, and thus be a banned substance, the substance must meet any two of the following three criteria; the substance is or has the potential to be performance enhancing, the substance is or has the potential to be harmful to an athlete’s health, the substance is contrary to the ‘spirit of sport’ (WADA,...
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...Ms. Heady Developing Writing, 3rd hr. 12 December 2012 Steroids are the death of sports Steroids are the worst thing when it comes to competition because during this can cause a serious problem as far as your health goes and your reputation if caught. (ballislife.com). In these cases thing always change because athletes do this in every sport then when caught never know what to say or how to apologize for their actions. Sports should be something that is fun and not something were you cheating your competition by medicine instead of hard work in the gym. In sports when athletes go down the wrong route there careers are affected when caught and sometimes universities are punished for their actions if the university knew about the drugs all along. Drugs in sports are nothing to play with. Your family and fans will be hurt by your decision if you were a really big Icon. You can’t do the crime and be afraid of the consequences (Barry Bonds). (www.espn go.com) in competition if you have to cheat to when then who is the real winner? The truth will come out eventually and your pride will be hurt more than ever because your caught red handed and the local and if good enough nationwide news will make an example out of you. If a professional athlete you will be stripped of championship rings and more because In the league eyes they weren’t earned, they were cheated (www.sportsfax.com). All sports have there best players and people that have did wrong things just because at the end...
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...Illegal Drug Use in Sports Drug testing in professional sports should be at random times and professional sports leagues should have stricter policies on drug testing. Performance enhancing drugs give professional athletes unfair advantages that are unfair to the athletes who do not use performance enhancing drugs. When athletes use performance enhancing drugs it affects their health and if they are caught when drug tested the athlete can face severe punishments. Consequently, if an athlete is caught using performance enhancing drugs it sends a negative message to young people that often look up to professional athletes. If drug testing was not required in professional sports, some athletes would gain an unfair advantage. Performance enhancing drugs have been used from all the way back to the Greek Olympics through present day. The first drug tests began in February 1968 at the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France. "The IOC instituted its first compulsory doping controls at the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France in 1968 and again at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City in the same year. At that time the list of banned substances issued in 1967 included narcotic analgesics and stimulants, which comprised sympathomimetic amines, psychomotor stimulants and miscellaneous central nervous system stimulants [including alcohol]. Although it was suspected that androgenic anabolic steroids were being used at this time, testing methods were insufficiently developed to...
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...Steroids in Sports University of Phoenix Introduction to Research and Information Utilization RES/110 Timothy Wong February 01, 2010 Steroids in Sports How has the use of steroids affected sports? It all started in 1952 with Soviets Olympic debut in Helsinki, but it did not make a large impact until the 1954 World Weightlifting Championships when the Soviets won most of their weight classes. Steroids have been around in sports for a long time, but how have they affected each sport up till today. Everyone hears about the superstars that have been involved in the recent steroid activity, but most people do not hear about how it all started in sports. In this research paper one will see where it all started from and how it has progressed throughout all sports. One will see this through articles, web sites, and some newspapers. This is an interesting topic with all the recent steroid use in baseball such as Alex Rodriguez, Roger Clemens, and Mark Maguire just to name a few. Everyone knows about these big names and how they have affected baseball over the last few years so how did this all start, why did they want to use steroids, and what has the government done to stop this from being a problem in the future. One would think that this is not a big problem in sports today after all of the attention that has came from the government and the media, but it still is in the sports that do not have drug testing in such as high school sports or minor...
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...competitive sports, doping refers to the use of banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs by athletic competitors, where the term doping is widely used by organizations that regulate sporting competitions. Doping has turned into a world wide issue that still to this day has gone unnoticed by society but some how seems to cross many peoples minds. Little do the athletes and the contributors to their addiction know what lasting effects involving health issues, how it alters their life longevity, and how it can also ruin their careers. Doping is an unfair advantage in sports and deserves to be banned. A article “Drug abuse in Athletes,” by Claudia Reardon and Shane Creado, part of the department of psychiatry, at the University...
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...To normal people, specifically for those who aren’t in the field of athletics or health and fitness, the word anabolic steroid may sound a little bit strange. Our bodies produce these things through our endocrine system. But with the advent of technology and thorough scientific studies, these chemicals can now be artificially created and manufactured in a drug form.Causes of Substance Abuse As we have mentioned above, these substances are mostly used for improvement of athletic performances. The danger about using these drugs is that people try to abuse it. According certain surveys, steroid abuse is present 6% of every athlete. Experts believe that the abuse is more rampant than the values brought about by these figures. That’s the reason why rigorous tests are being done to professional and Olympic athletes. Still, this isn’t an excuse because of the appearance of what we call designer drugs which are greatly available in the market for use. Every athlete wants to be one step ahead of their competition so they are always prone to get these substances to maximize and improve their skills. Another reason why people are prone to anabolic steroids is to increase muscle size and fat reduction. These are commonly present to those people who are so much anxious of their image that they develop a...
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...can be a serious issue at any level of sports. Keep in mind that some forms of doping can be the use of narcotics and stimulants that can inhibit an athlete’s mind and not just supplements. Athletes are always looking for something to help get that edge, whether it is a second off their sprint time, being able to withstand a long run with ease, hitting a ball farther or lifting a few more pounds at the gym. Doping can give that edge to athletes and help them win that competition. But is it fair? We know that some forms of doping are just that, dope better known as drugs and is illegal to possess and use. As I see it, doping is cheating! Any titles and/or awards that are earned by the athletes who have been proven to be under the influence of drugs during the competition should be given back or stripped. Like, I have stated already doping is cheating and in some forms illegal. Why should it be okay for someone to alter their bodies just to get the edge over other athletes who work hard the right way?...
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