Performance enhancing drugs can help an athlete’s performance, but there is long term effect on the athlete’s body. Therefore, World Anti-Doping Agency and other organizations must do a better job to help athletes understand the risk of using PED. Background The Olympics began testing athletes for the use of performance enhancing drugs around 1968, the National Football League began in 1987, and the Major League Baseball began in 2003. The use of PEDs was not a crime until 1988, when Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act.…
There are many reasons as to why doping should have harsh punishments but to understand them, one must understand what doping actually is. Doping is when athletes take illegal substances to improve their performances and enhance their abilities. It is most commonly used in sporting events and competitions and is used to gain a physical and mental advantage. To better understand the subject of performance enhancing drugs, it is good to know what ‘Doping’ actually is and how it affects the body.(“BBC Sport", 2016)…
The UFC’s anti-doping policy appears to be doing what it set out to do, clean up the sport. The first step in this process is catching and punishing dirty fighters. So far, it appears to be pretty successful. First were a few fighters that didn’t pass the eye test, that is, just looking at the fighter’s physic raised the suspicion of PED use: Hector Lombard, Yoel Romero, Gleison Tibau. Although Tibau and Romero still claim their innocence, few likely believe them.…
On October 10th, 2012, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) released a statement saying “the US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team ran the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that the sport has ever seen.” Armstrong was banned from any recognized competition for life and his competitive results from 1998 forward were disqualified. (Tygart) The agency said the evidence showed prolonged use of a range of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) including erythropoietin (EPO), blood transfusions, testosterone, corticosteroids, human growth hormone and masking agents (used to prevent detection of PEDs). (Linden 2012.)…
Introduction: Tom brady and Belichick are the NFL’s golden boy and master wizard. In a league that showcases men with superhuman strength and uncanny speed two historically average men together created one of the most successful teams in league history. A throw away quarterback and a notorious type a coordinated orchestrated one of the greatest dynasties in league history. On the field they made opponents look uncoordinated and slow. They always seemed to be a step ahead of the rest of the NFL.…
Scientific American says “about 50-80 percent of all professional baseball players as well as Track and Field stars have been doping” (Shermer, “Gaming Baseball: Why Players Dope”). Many athletes who dope say it is a necessity as an excuse to the act. 1988 Olympic Gold Medalist in the 100-meter, Ben Johnson was stripped of his titles for doping; his trainer Francis said “it was cheat or lose” (Francis, “Gaming Baseball: Why players Dope”). From 1968-2012 there were about 114 doping cases open in the Summer Olympics and about 22 in the Winter Olympics.…
The authors Travis T. Tygart, Chief Executive Officer and Richard W. Cohen, board Chair of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency or USADA are very persuasive in their arguments. Sports were…
For the Good of the Horse, or the Good of the People? Sports have rules. No matter the sport, it will have guidelines that tell people how to play and to keep players from cheating. Drug usage, one of the most debated sections of any rulebook, is regulated and controlled with drug testing and hefty punishments. The entire Russian track and field team was recently suspended for a “culture of cheating” through large-scale, government influenced drug usage (Keteyian).…
This list was effective but “Treatment/enhancement distinction is costly to implement, necessitating constant monitoring by WADA of both its Prohibited List of Substances and Methods (2011) and its ‘therapeutic use exemption’ scheme, which permits individual athletes to take substances that are otherwise prohibited, as long as their medical prescription is declared in advance (Article 4.4WADC)” (Anderson 143). The WADA’s Prohibited list of Substances and Methods did not fully ban the use of drugs in sports, athletes had to have prove that it was medically prescribed. there are other reasons why all drugs may not be completely ban .The illicit drug ban is not an all year round ban like performance-enhancing drugs, they are only ban during in season or in-competition(Smith, et al 3).…
How do they drug test? Things such as blood testing and urine samples are used as a drug test. After an athlete is tested, the sample is shipped to WADA (World Anti- Doping Agency) to be checked. The chaperone for the sample is responsible for making sure the sample arrives in a timely manner and is secure during transport. It may take two or more days to for the lab to get the samples, test them, then return them.…
Introduction PEDs are performance enhancing drugs used by athletes to help them build muscle and perform outstandingly. “Anabolic steroids, when combined with vigorous physical training, do enhance athletic performance by making users bigger, stronger, and faster-while also speeding up their recovery time after strenuous exercise” (Mitten, 2008, p.61). Athletes feel that they have to use performance-enhancing drugs to be able to compete with the athletes that already use them because of the advantage it gives them (Drugs and Athletes, 2016). Deciding whether drug testing athletes for PEDs is a pro or con is a controversy in high schools and Olympics. Drug testing athletes is important because using PEDs is against the rules, PEDs have deadly side effects, and PEDs give athletes an unfair advantage, however some people believe that drug testing is defective.…
Sports and Drugs As we all know, there are many amazing athletes in the sports world today. With many skilled athletes the pressure to prepare and perform well has become increasingly harder. As an athlete I know how important it is to prepare yourself for each and every performance, but some people go to the extreme. To prepare themselves and guarantee that they will perform well many athletes will result to performance enhancement drugs, or PED’s.…
Frequently Asked Questions About Drug Testing in Schools. (2014). Retrieved October 12, 2016, from https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics This article is giving us reliable facts about how schools are conducting drug testing on their athletes. One of the things they do is random testing on their athletes.…
This source is important because the book goes in depth on the work that the WADA has had on the anti-doping movement. This source is going to be used in my paper by explaining what the WADA is and what it is contributing to the sports world. This source will allow my paper to talk about what needs to happen in the future to fix the problem of gene doping. Wells, D. (n.d.).…
Since the beginning of sports competition, athletes have always wanted to get a better edge over their competitors and will do anything necessary to do so. They go as far as to injecting themselves with drugs and taking supplements to make them bigger, faster, and stronger. A method otherwise known as doping; a process in which athletes use prohibited drugs or training methods to surpass their competitors. These athletes; steaming from all sports, have been misusing these drugs, not wanting to spend the crucial time and effort others are willing to do. They desire a quick and easy route to these achievements through the use of the said drugs.…