Ancient Olympic Games

muscle and strength. The Olympic games is a large sporting event designed to show the entire nation who are the 3 best athletes in the world in chosen sport. So when athletes are cheating by using drugs to become one of the best 3 people in the world in a certain sport they are beating people who are clean and haven’t used drugs and they have worked very hard to get where they are. An example of a drug cheat beating a genuine hardworking athlete was at the London 2012 Olympics in the shot-put…

The two sides first met on 14 November 1967 in the final of the 1967 Quoc Khanh Cup, held in South Vietnam. Australia won the match 3-2 and secured the nation’s first honour in international football. The last meeting between the two teams, a 0-0 draw, took place on 20 July 2013, at the 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup in South Korea. Australia, who began the 2015 Asian Cup as one of the favourites, was ranked 100 in the FIFA World Rankings and tenth among AFC teams, while South Korea was Ranked 69…

used for anything from teams drafting players, to fans betting on games. Teams want to draft players who’s induvial statistics can help their overall winning percentage. On the other hand, Fans like to bet on whether a team will win or lose a game. The following research and models could possibly help someone decide who to bet for or against based on the teams overall winning percentage. The typical NHL season consists of 82 games. A teams winning percentage can be figured out by dividing the…

If an athlete chooses to use performance enhancing drugs, they are essentially removing themselves from that sport. In the article, “The Use of Performance Enhancing Drug Is Cheating” by Stephen Mumford, Mumford states, “Games can and do evolve in all sorts of ways. But unless one accepts those rules, one is not playing… if one breaks the rules of drug use, one has opted out of the sport” (2). In other words, Mumford believes that an athlete who uses performance enhancing…

There exists a great deal of research information on the subject of doping in sports. One can look back in time to the early Olympics and find signs of doping in sports. It appears since the inception of organized sports doping has been a prevalent issue. Many athletes have met their deaths due to doping and many have seen their sports career come to an end as a result of doping…

Once there was a lonely racetrack, and no one had raced on it for twenty five years. The track was very curvy with a lot of loops. It had jumps over lakes, and it was the hardest training facility in the world. This was why it had to close down. The track was in a city in Québec. There were tons of people getting ready for this race for a long time. Callum, the mayor, called for this race because he wanted to see who was the best driver in Québec. The three main drivers were Ollie, Jack, and…

Over the past years there has been talk of people doing illegal drugs or support enhances to increase sport abilities. As the number of drugs being used in American Sports is decreasing, there are still many cases of drugs being used. The usage of these illegal substance isn’t good for the player’s health or for the sport itself. Many American athletics such as high school, colleges, and professional level give drug tests for the safety of the sport and player. With the knowledge of health risks…

Athletics or Drugs: You Choose The world we live in today is filled with all kinds of mischievous things for our teenagers to get into. Drugs are very big in today’s society. Whether this be in adults or teenagers, you can walk down the streets and see it. Many athletes are users of these substances. There is much controversy over whether student athletes should be drug tested before they are allowed to play the sport of their choice. If they pass, they play. If they fail, they are not…

Drugs in sports is a big deal, but what’s the huge deal with drugs and athletes. When athletes do steroids, PED’s, or any other type of enhancer to enhance their athletic ability, it is considered cheating. Due to that, people argue if it should be considered cheating or not. The drugs that the athlete’s take can take a toll on the athlete’s health in the later stages of the athlete’s life. One of the most argued points is if an athlete takes steroids or PED’s, is it considered cheating or not…

your competition. But after being caught and stripped of all seven titles was all of this really worth it? All these years later everything you worked for is now gone and pointless. The 1970’s was when blood doping was not banned yet so in the Mexico games athletes used these transfusions. In the 1980’s it was finally banned mainly because of the U.S. cycling…