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    taking different types of drugs so they can increase their chances of performance for many years. Blood doping is banned from any type of sports, it increases the performance of athletes in the sport industry. Drug(s) such as EPO and Blood doping enables the athletes to have extra oxygen to work harder. Not only are there health risks involved with blood doping but athletes getting caught can lose their reputation. The media has such an impact of why the athlete was achieving in their sports. The sport industry should be taking in a harder stance on offenders because blood doping is illegal and can have further consequences. Blood doping in the athlete’s world is banned because of the causes such as health dangers such…

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    activity the blood glucose level will drop. This is due to your body needing and using more energy, so it is using up the glucose in the blood. For example during the rainbow rage athletes could expect to see their blood glucose levels continually drop throughout the 106 km track. Due to the intensity of the track and the distance their blood glucose levels will get very low and the alpha cells will be struggling to secrete enough glucagon to make sure the liver can keep up with the bodies…

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    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 the more red blood cells someone has the more oxygen in their blood which leads to more performance…

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    Animal abuse has been a part of human history for going farther back than 710 A.D.. Animal abuse has even been used for human entertainment such as bullfighting all the way to grindadraps. These activities still exists to this day. At some points in history animal abuse was considered a sport. Dog fighting was seen as far back as the 12th century. When the Romans invaded Britain, Britain’s used their dogs to help in the war. When they finally won they saw how strong their dogs were and began…

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    and bowling these games originated in Europe. They played them for fun and now we play those games every day so we have the NFL and the MLB because of the medieval ages. Alquerques is a game of strategy checkers originated from Alquerques. A piece moves from spot to spot as long as the spots are connected by a line. You can jump the opponents player to take it out of the game. Just like checkers there are double jumps no piece can go where it already has been pieces can not move backward…

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    Bullfighting is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, parts of southern France and some Latin American countries like Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru. It is a sport in which one or more bulls are fought in a bullring. Although it can be defined as a blood sport, within the areas where it is practiced it is not a sport. Historically it has been considered a cultural event and art form which is deeply tied to Hispanic culture and identity. There are no elements of…

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    of playing sports as a child and young adult are limited but the impact on one's self and the memories will last forever. Each child between the ages of 4-16 should play sports while growing up. By playing sports throughout the early years of life, it allows children to be physically active, as well as be educated on their decisions related to health. Unfortunately, there are many people who believe sports cost too much money. However there are more positive impacts than negative impacts on…

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    1. If all athletes do it wouldn’t that make it fair? It is assumed that many athletes already take/ use performance enhancing drugs regardless of their illegal status therefore if we make it legal I would assume that majority of athletes would take advantage of the situation and participate in legal doping, then it would make the competition fair because all performance enhancing drugs are available to the athletes as well as the most elite equipment and sporting gear too. 2. Athletes would be…

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    Sports are “activities that involve physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment”. When physical exercise is involved such as sports, it benefits the mind, spirit and body health. Sports can encourage leadership, devotion, and commitment throughout the players, among many other traits. During the course of this semester, we were able to experience and learn the skills and rules of many different sports. Among these sports, soccer…

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    Many people have been debating on whether competitive sports should be supported for children. The pros for supporting competitive sports have a wide variety of benefits under 2 categories, Mental and Physical strengths. Between the context of injuries and mental and physical strengths, the pros for supporting competitive sports overhold way more benefits than the risk of a rare injury as argued from many other sources. I think competitive sports should be influenced for kids because it helps…

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