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.…
(“Drug free Sport NZ", 2016) These famous athletes and their decision to use performance enhancing drugs have given rise to ethical issues. Parents and school teachers believe that famous athletes are often seen as idols and role models and these actions aren’t sending a good message to their younger audience and fans. With sports being one of the most entertaining and most viewed events on television, the youth needs better role models to look up…
Jorge Sanchez Jose Rodriguez ENC1101 October 8, 2015 Should Athletes Who Dope Have to Forfeit Their Titles and Medals? The debate over athletes using performance enhancing drugs is getting more complicated as time moves forward. Athletes have been using performance enhancing drugs for centuries. Back in the day, East Germany and the Soviet Union were known to be involved in drug experimentations. Even in the United States, steroids and stimulants became very popular.…
Alcohol may be the most common drug used amongst college athletes. Generally, most of these athletes blatantly ignore the factors that are detrimental to achieving the optimal performance they are searching for. Often times, athletes may find themselves with little spare time to go out drinking and partying, but that little time may be spent binge drinking and getting heavenly intoxicated. Overtime, professionals have documented the effects of alcohol and how it adversely effects being on top of you game both mentally and physically. Being on top of your game both mentally and physically is paramount in college sports.…
“Using drugs often compromises judgement and physical abilities and makes a person unable to perform in a variety of contexts such as academics, athletics, music/dramatic arts, decision making in everyday situations, driving any kind of vehicle, and operating equipment or tools.” (The Coaches Playbook). The most used trait in athletics is quick decision making. Since decision making is affected by the use of drugs it can not only hurt the student athlete's team, but it can hurt themselves’. Also, using drugs can affect their academics in school.…
Who do your kids look up to? Do they look up to a superstar, or a drug addict? In todays world we need to make sure we are careful of who our kids idolize as many athletes make poor moral decisions as they gain fame. Our kids should look up to role models based on their life choices, not based on the number of Sport Illustrated covers they are on. Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson, and Alex Rodriguez are all current day examples of how athletes can reflect a negative image to kids.…
Why ban performance-enhancing drugs? Andrew Vierra-Former NCAA Athlete and Current Graduate Student in Philosophy at Georgia State University Studying Ethics Athletics is under fire after a major blood-test leak revealed another doping crisis. The leak divulged that a third of Olympic medals won in endurance events from 2001-2012 were won by athletes who may have been doping, and with the Athletic World Championship in Beijing happening this month, many are concerned that not enough is being done to ensure that the championships will be fair. Former Olympic pole vault champion Sergey Bubka, now IAAF vice-president, recently attempted to assure those concerned, stating "We will not stop the fight. We know that in the 21st century doping is the biggest danger and there will be zero tolerance.…
For hundreds of years in the history of sports, athletes have become stronger, faster, and more skilled in their specific sport. They have done this by pushing themselves to their limits each day to be the greatest of all time. Then came performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), the killer of sports. PEDs created an unfair playing field and caused many users to receive negative effects not only in the short-term but also in the long-term. Not to mention these drugs can be lethal.…
Drugs and Athletes In this paper I will include several different topics on the subject of Drug Testing Athletes. These subjects include, college athletes being drug tested, the different types of drugs that are used in all athletes, why drug use is a problem in sports, how to determine if an athletes is using drugs, drug testing polices, potential side effects, many historical use of drugs, and two different personal stories that have happened to former athletes. All athletes know that doing illegal or banned drugs of any kind can ruin their health, their eligibility to play sports, their reputation, and their ability to pursue a possible career in professional sports. The most commonly used drugs by college athletes are marijuana, cocaine,…
High School athletes having drug tests Having drug tests can change the lives of millions of high school athletes by making sure they don 't have an advantage in the game and mainly getting hurt. High school athletes having drug tests would help change schools by how the drug use for athletes will decrease and grades get higher. This would make sure athletes not have an unfair advantage in the game which can cause a risk of injury. Also can cause some major health problems.…
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.…
Zeenat Adams Bolivar Comp 10 June 10, 2016 Doping in Sports In the 2012 London Olympic Games, more than half of the athletes were disqualified for taking banned substances. They were caught taking drugs such as steroids and human growth hormone (HGH). Athletes should not dope because it ruins their career, as well as their bodies and the integrity of the sport that they play.…
Within the past three decades the world of sports has developed into multi-billion dollar business, with franchises and individual athlete’s signing sponsorship deals and TV rights contracts worth millions. This has put immense pressure onto the shoulders of athlete’s, sports clubs and national sporting federations to succeed, win major titles and gold medals. This increase in pressure has caused coaches, and athlete’s to make the decision to take performance enhancing drugs to attempt to increase their level of performance and increase their chance of success. We have read and heard about many doping scandals on the news within recent years to do with high level performers being caught taking illegal ergogenic aids such as: Lance Armstrong,…
As we look deep into sports in our society today, we discover there are many aspects to the athletic world that are often hot topics, or controversial issues. One of the biggest, most popular topics in the society of sports is whether performance enhancing drugs should be legalized and used, or banned altogether. In my own opinion, these performance enhancing drugs should not be legalized, or allowed in the world of sports. There are many reasons that the use of performance enhancing drugs should not be allowed in athletics. One of the biggest reasons is to make the game fair for each athlete.…
A : SPORT AS A UNIFIER 1. I believe that sporting events contribute significantly to unifying a nation. Sporting events are a great form of entertainment and attract huge audiences around the world. Spectators either gather at stadiums to watch live events or watch socially on their TV’s.…