Ancient Olympic Games

PDHPE Assignment Sports player: Marion Jones Drug used:THG meaning: Tetrahydrogestrinone, an artificial anabolic steroid taken for enhancement of athletic performance. Table of events Disqualified events Gold Medals Won Bronze Medal Won Discussion (Used Wiki facts) Throughout her entire athletic career even in high school Marion Jones had been accused either outright or by implication of taking performance enhancing drugs, Until 2007 Marion Jones routly…

Wrestling is one of the oldest sports. They have found cave drawings of it that dated up to 15,000 years ago. Wrestling was very popular in the Olympic games. It originated in Greece as a way to teach soldiers hand-to-hand combat. It was most popular during the middle ages. There are four ways of winning a wrestling match. One, you can win by major decision which is winning by points. Two, you can win by technical fall which is where you win by 15 points and its an automatic win. Three, you…

Cold War. After researching the topic, I noticed the several of the references describe a link between the victory of the USA hockey team over team USSR. This helped me create my thesis which states: When team USA beat team USSR in the 1980 Olympic games, they brought home much more than a medal, they inspired their fellow American's with the hope they needed to be victorious over the Soviet Union and bring a period known as the Cold War. My next step was to decide what content to use for my…

“spirit of the game”. PED’s also pose a large health risk to the athlete, and legalizing steroids would not necessarily level the playing field. Even though fans would fill up stadiums, seating 50,000 to witness the highest level of play , doping would ruin the “spirit of the game”. The spirit of the game or good sportsmanship is demonstrated when a player plays fairly. Morals are one reason, “The current PED ban stems from… and a… belief that PED use damages the “spirit of the game”…

Gene doping is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as “the transfer of genes or genetically modified cells into an individual as a potential method for illicitly enhancing athletic performance.” It is is a relatively new method of modifying the human genome for the purpose of increasing athletic performance. Gene doping can be traced back to research presented in the late 1990’s concerning genetic modification of skeletal muscles (Barton-Davis et al., 1998; McPherron et al., 1997). The research…

shouldn't be introduced to athletes in sporting events. The use of performance-enhancing drugs, or “doping,” by professional athletes has been acknowledged as a problem since at least the 1960s (CNN). FDA took action in 2004. It is banned by the NFL, Olympics, NCAA and MLB (CNN). The use of enhancing drugs is not fair to the other contestants. The drug gives an athlete an unfair advantage. It is the act of misusing medicinal products to gain an advantage in performance and to prevent fatigue…

This study examined Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty (UKA) surgery in an outpatient ambulatory medical service versus an inpatient medical service. Performing UKA surgery in an ambulatory medical service has been compared to inpatient effectiveness and cost benefits has yet to be discussed between outpatient and inpatient performing surgery. Cost saving can be achieved by performing UKA in an outpatient ambulatory medical service. The prices the medical billing bills the insurance,between…

the Olympics. In their very first Olympics, the Helsinki Olympics of 1952, they matched the Americans in the medal count. This dominance continued through most of the Soviet era. However, this dominance was not free from politics. There were instances of boycotts, during the ‘80 and ‘84 Olympics, from both the USA and USSR due to political tensions abroad. Many decades later, these same political tensions are still present during the Olympics.When Russia went to build the 2014 Winter Olympics in…

Maria Sharapova a famous athlete in the sport of tennis was recently caught using performance enhancing drugs. Meldonium is a drug that is quite often used amongst tennis players and other athletes. As of Friday the number of positive tests for the substance in 2016 across the sporting world was up to 140, this is becoming a huge problem for not only tennis athletes but athletes across all sport codes. What do we know about the substance, why was the Russian taking it and why was it banned…

Athletes people who are role models to the next generation, people who influence how countries are ran. Many athletes use blood doping to get an extra edge over the other competitors but by many people believe this method is unfair and many people are fighting over whether this method should be banned or allowed in professional sports. Blood doping is the process where blood is transfused or injected in the body to increase red blood cells. This red blood cells are important to athletes because…