Doping

In 1968, the International Olympic Committee tested all athletes in the olympics for performance enhancing drugs to help keep the it fair between the athletes. In the first olympics played, performance enhancing drugs were being used by the Greeks to help them win. Major league baseball, one of the major companies trying to change it, banned steroids (a PED) in 1991 as a way to keep the players equal. A multitude of people may think that it is okay for athletes to use performance enhancing drugs…

artificial forms of hormones that are used to increase strength and weight (Yesalis). Steroids have been used by competitors throughout history to gain an advantage over their opponents (Should). According to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), doping is defined as “the administration of or use by a competing athlete of any substance foreign to the body or of any physiological substance taken in abnormal quantity or taken by an abnormal route of entry into the body with the sole intention…

Currently all Canadian National Sport Organizations have anti-doping policies as part of their high performance athlete agreements. They encompass the use of PEDs and the commitment of being honest and fair in sport. Within my own sport of Synchronized Swimming, the athlete agreement states in part, “Comply with all requirements established by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) regarding doping control rules and protocols; Athletes should conduct themselves in a sportsman-like…

Will Hobson, writer for the Washington Post, goes into a great deal of information about the Russian track doping scandal in WADA: 'Deeply rooted culture of cheating ' among Russian athletes. Illegal performance enhancement use doesn’t leave a good image of an individual let alone a whole national team like Russia. In this case, Hobson explains it wasn’t the…

We just finished watching the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Korea. I was inspired by watching people like Mikaela Shiffrin, Red Gerard, Sean White, and the United States Women’s Hockey Team represent our country and lead us to victory. I find it no small coincidence that we’ve been asked to examine Simon Kuper’s essay, where he asks the provocative question: “Why do we still watch the Olympics?” This article was published in the sports column of the Financial Times, and it was created for…

During the 1976 games Ukrainian, Boris Onishchenko, received a life ban for modifying his sword with a secret button he could push to register non-existent hits. 2. Name the Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter, stripped of his 1988 gold medal for doping. 3. True or False. When a Puerto Rican athlete pulled her hamstring during the 1984 Long Jump, her identical twin sister impersonated her, and ran the 4 X 400 relay for her. 4. Name the figure skater implicated in her ex-husband's attack on…

Natasha Cohen 12Q Physical Education Written Task A: SPORTS AS A UNIFIER 1. Yes. Sports have a language and culture of their own. They have the power to bring people together, no matter what their origin, background, religious beliefs or economic status. Sports give a nation a shared reason of pride. 2.1 • Image 1 & 2: Nelson Mandela, in 1995 when South Africa won the Rugby World Cup, wearing the number 6 on his back, the same as that of Springbok captain, Francois Pienaar. • Image 3:…

“The history of doping in sports beginning in 1876 with a highly distinguished professor of medicine taking his students on walks around Edinburgh ( A history of drug use in sports 5).” Doping and using drugs in sports has been around for more than 100 years, but that does not make it right. Fans wants the game to be played fair and fun. “The threat perceived by doping is the compromising of ethical and moral considerations central to motions…

It’s not just about putting someone in jail or suspending from a few games, the problem has become greater and will not stop to grow if it keeps getting ignored. American sport leagues tried to put a stop to drug abuse by creating the World Anti-Doping Association, WADA, and punish athletes, but seemed to have little effect since scandals still continue (Moore). Many professional athletes in the past have use drugs but they will not be the last to break the rules. Most athletes have the chance…

History of Drugs in the Olympics Drug use in sports has been suspected to have existed since the Roman times in which Gladiators would be given stimulants to stop fatigue and even their horses would be given hydromel, a substance which would enable them to run faster (Ramlan Abdul Aziz,2006). However the first documented case of drugs and stimulants being used in sports wasn’t until 1904 when marathon runner, Thomas Hicks, was injected twice with a substance called Strychnine, which is more…