...may attempt to succeed unlawfully. Blood doping and the use of steroids are two major illegal acts to commit in the world of sports. Alex Rodriguez and Lance Armstrong are very much admired athletes that were both accused of taking illegal performance enhancing drugs during their winning sport seasons. Lance Armstrong was publicly accused of blood doping, and Alex Rodriguez was accused of taking illegal steroids. While Lance Armstrong and Alex Rodriguez are world famous athletes, they are prime examples of why wining while cheating is not worth the hard work and dedication of a sports profession....
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...07/13/12 Dr. Will Project 1 Final Lance Armstrong is a world famous cyclist that has won many races including seven of the famous Tour de France (one of the worlds’ famous cycling races). He has been through many obstacles in his life including having to go through the process of overcoming testicular cancer that had spread to a lot of different parts of his body. He is one of the many lucky people in the world that was able to survive testicular cancer. Armstrong has been a true inspiration to many people in the world and has won a lot of awards. In the past couple years there has been many people debating whether Lance Armstrong deserved all the attention he got and all the prizes because they are saying that he was using drugs the whole time he was racing and that’s the reason he was winning. Ok for paragraph one. 1. Instead of saying cancer that had spread to allot of different parts of his body, why not name them? 2. How is he lucky? What percentages of people survive testicular cancer you should include a reference in there. 3. How does his debate on people claiming to use drugs tie in the paper? In the article, “Lance Armstrong: World Champion Cyclist” by Layne Cameron, the author talks about all the different races Lance Armstrong has been in and how he finally made it to be the world champion in cycling. The author, Layne Cameron, explains how Lance Armstrong had to overcome testicular cancer and how much work and effort he had to put into getting to where he...
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...still isn't enough and look for the short way out and enhance their skills with performance drugs such as blood doping and steroids. Lance Armstrong was unfortunately an athlete that ruined his life using the enhancing drugs. "Blood doping is an illicit method of improving athletic performance by artificially boosting the blood's ability to bring more oxygen to muscles" ,according to Varnada karriem (Norwood MD,webmd.com//august2014).Blood doping can cause serious damage to a human body, such as discoloration of the skin, causing body fluid and the skin to appear yellow as well as kidney damage and blood clots. When...
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...admitted to blood doping. His name was Lance Armstrong and not only did he live through cancer, but he was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. His list of achievement goes on until his banishment for professional racing and the stripping of his titles. He admitted to using banned substances including steroids and blood doping in an interview with Oprah Winfrey on January 17, 2013. Why would a man with so many accomplishments cheat the system with prohibited procedures and the use of illegal performance drugs? The three topics that rise in answering why Lance Armstrong blood doped is explaining what blood doping is, the advantage and disadvantages of it and drug use in profession sports. To describe what blood doping is one must first understand some key terms. Hemoglobin is a red protein responsible for carrying oxygen in your blood. Another key term is the cardiovascular system and this is an organ system that distributes the blood throughout the body to deliver nutrients and remove waste. And the respiratory system is the organ system that carries out gas exchange in your body. These three things all work together hand in hand like a smooth operating clock. The respiratory system gets the oxygen from the air and transports it to the blood carried in the hemoglobin. The oxygen enriched hemoglobin rides along the cardiovascular system to get to the needy muscles and deliver the oxygen to them. Mitochondria in the muscle cell use the oxygen in cellular respiration...
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...athletes as much if not more than they do the negative athletes, the bias approach taken towards role models is unequal. Sports media has chosen to take a radical approach in reporting about the favorite role models of children in today’s society. Over the past three years sports reporters have driven Lance Armstrong from atop the cycling world, they have taken an approach that has tarnished both his career and personal life. Michael Pearson reports that Lance Armstrong has stepped down as Chair of the Live Strong Cancer charity. In a CNN report Pearson (2012) writes that “Nike, which initially stood by Armstrong, dropped him October 17, 2012 with a terse statement citing what it called seemingly insurmountable evidence that he participated in doping.” Pearson has chosen only to give partial information throughout his report about Lance Armstrong. At no time during the article does Pearson ever mention what Lance has done for the community and for the world of cycling, if it was not for Lance and his Seven Tour titles the youth cycling organizations of the United States would not have any dreams to follow. Reporters are not the only individuals that have tarnished Lance Armstrong’s...
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...such as Lance Armstrong, David Ortiz, Alex Rodriguez and Lyle Alzado decided to take them. But after all those drugs, what happened to them all? They all got penalized and some, even death. For example, Lance Armstrong was tested four times for steroid use and his results came out to be positive. Immediately after testing positive, he was stripped of his four Tour De France titles and his 2000 Summer Olympics bronze medal. Also, Armstrong was dropped by popular brands, such as Nike and Oakley, just to name a few; and is banned...
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...Enhancing Drugs In the world of sports, competition is always on the mind of every athlete that competes. Whether it be a sport like football that demands physical and mental toughness to more simpler sports like track and field which focuses on one specific event or sequence, competition is always around the corner. Every athlete who competes in any extracurricular sport wants to see their name in lights or scattered across newspapers, magazines, sponsorships, and trophies to prove that they are worthy of becoming one of the greatest athletes of all time. However, in a society full of medical breakthroughs and countless research, an array of substances known as Performance Enhancing Drugs have fallen into the hands of these athletes....
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...take performance enhancing drugs despite the risks involved? Abstract Drugs in sport is an ongoing problem which I believe will never be completely abolished from the sporting world. We have definitely come a long way since the early days of drug use with the introduction of governing bodies such ad WADA to help control the testing of athletes and the detection of illegal substances, however I do not think we will be able to completely remove this ’drug culture’ from the sporting world. Therefore having experienced first-hand the drug testing practices involved in detection after competing in the world youth championships this year I was interested to look into the motivation behind athletes who choose to cheat and risk their future career both athletically and their career after retirement having been branded as a 'cheat’ within their sport. I will do this by looking into the history of drug use in sport and the enhancements the drugs provide to performance to try to understand why athletes risk their careers to simply win. Contents | | Abstract | 2 | Introduction | 2 | Drugs in sport; a modern problem? | 3 | Drugs in sport: what are they? * Amphetamines * Anabolic steroids * EPO * Diuretics * Caffeine | 3-6 | Drugs in sport: health risks | 6-7 | Drugs in sport: detection and punishment...
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...Running head: MARKETING KILLER PRODUCT Marketing Killer Product Blake E. Lance Lubbock Christian University Tobacco is a nasty, horrible, addictive drug in any form or fashion. I feel that it is one of the leading drugs in America and it is legal. Legal or not there is to many American's addicted to tobacco, whether you chew it, or smoke it. If it was illegal people would farm it, sell it, just like any other drug in America, believe the government legalized it just to be able to tax the tobacco and gain a very large profit off of it. The government raises the prices as if the drug addicted people are going to quit, its just more money in uncle sam's pocket, knowing that the people are addicted to tobacco. Tobacco company's will never stop selling tobacco because they know that there is to many people addicted to it and if they did not sell it, there competitor will and why loose out on all that money. Even tho, predictions are that one billion people world wide will die this century from smoking related ailments, (Armstrong/Kotler 11th edition p. 34.) Its legal and the tobacco company's know there is a very high demand for the product. There may be a few of the big bosses in these big tobacco company's have a little conscience and moral fiber in themselves but the big almighty dollars stands in their way. Therefore I think it will never stop the money is to good and there is way to many American's and foreign people addicted to it. Cigarette marketers will continue...
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...home runs during a close baseball game? Performance enhancing drugs or “PEDs” can help your favorite team and favorite player perform at the greatest potential. Performance enhancing drugs are used in almost every sport without people ever really knowing that a player is on them. The only way to truly find out is to administer a drug test and if results come back positive, then the player is usually hated and looked at as a loser. But if you get by the test and get a negative result and are not caught using the drugs, then you are in the clear and still have the same reputation of being a good player even though you are cheating. Since the tests...
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...suspended by their respected leagues for doping. Steroids should be banned in professional sports today because they give athletes unfair advantages, they’re horrible to the athletes’ body, and there can be severe side effects. There are copious types of steroids that athletes use. “The most common type of steroids that athletes use are anabolic steroids, or synthetic versions of the male hormone, testosterone” (Quinn). This particular...
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...Performance Enhancement Drugs in Sports, the Ethical Choice In May 28, 2002, former Major League Baseball player Ken Caminiti admits to Sports Illustrated in the article “Caminiti Comes Clean” that he used steroids during his 1996 National League MVP (most valuable player) season with the San Diego Padres and he estimated that half of the players in the big leagues were also using steroids. He later died of a heart attack at age 40 where it was ruled by the New York Medical Examiner that drugs are a factor in his death. In October 5, 2007, track star Marion Jones admits to use steroids during the 2000 Olympic Games where she won three Gold Medals and two Bronze Medals. She was later sentenced to six months in prison for lying to the court and stripped off of all of her medals. Throughout history, there have been many stories of athletes using performance enhancing drugs, but none more than in the last 20 years. As technology advances in science as well as the media, more drugs has been engineer to enhance performance as well as the test to detect such drugs, as the results get to the hands of the media, the entire world would be at noticed in a manner of minutes. The fact is that performance enhancing drugs have existed since the time of the ancient Greek during the original Olympic Games from 776 BC – 393 BC. The question is why should we care? If most athletes are using it, is it a plain level field? And why is the government involved? Should the government be involved? ...
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...National Institute on Drug Abuse Society today is a highly antagonistic environment where people compete for jobs, college admissions, fame and status. In a high-pressured society, people are willing to do whatever it takes to be number one, or the best at what they do. The smallest, slightest advantage could make all the difference in the world, especially in an olympic race where .5 milliseconds could be the difference between winning and losing. The use of performing enhancing drugs has given athletes an advantage, over those who do not use them. Not only have athletes engaged in the use of anabolic steroids, but other drugs such as stimulants, beta-blockers, diuretics, and human growth hormone. Society has placed a pressure on athletes...
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...Why is it that so many athletes find a need to predominate in their sport? Being able to excel is what makes you shine to the world. Watching your favorite player succeed is what makes people enjoy sports as much as they do. The more they succeed the bigger the fan base gets as more popular the sport gets. As Cousins said “No one doubts that many people enjoy prize fighting and will miss it if it should be thrown out. And that is precisely the point.” The pressure to excel for athletes in high school, college and professional leagues is much greater due to many factors relating to the sport. High standards set by coaches and parents is one of the main causes of the pressure athletes feel at a young age. While on a varsity team in high school...
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...Doping Athletes In 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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