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    enhancing drug banned recently from the Olympics because it brings higher amounts of oxygen to muscle tissue this helps with endurance which is key for an athlete to succeed. This rule was put in place in January 2016 by the WADA or the World Anti-Doping Agency. 150 athletes were suspended including star tennis player (who was number 1 at…

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    Vladimir Putin and Russia interfered with their athletes, allowing and encouraging athletes to use performance enhancing drugs. This comes in an attempt to win and further gain political power for the state. Putin’s ideas and involvement in the illegal doping closely relates to previous action in absolutist monarchies and other previous dominant countries. As evidenced in the film “Icarus”, Vladimir…

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    Luke Estlund Mrs. V. English 11 23 April 2024 Steroids Should Not Be Allowed In Sports Imagine a world where athletic greatness comes from the bottle, not from the heart. Should this be the future of sports? The use of steroids in sports bridges the gap between natural talent and artificially enhanced abilities, often with consequences. The impact of steroid use in competition has been a major debate among athletes for many years. While athletes should be free to improve their performance…

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    Marion Jones Case Study

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    Q.2.Explain the rules and sanctions the IOC has for drug taking in two sentences. Ans.The fight against doping for the IOC, which has established a zero-tolerance policy to combat cheating and to punish anyone responsible for using or providing doping products. Q.3.Briefly examine three other drug-related case in any sports/s in one paragraph Ans.A. Alain Baxter : He is a sports player in alpine skiing(2002) in…

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    For Corliss, escaping her stereotype, which she uses to help her on her quest, is important to her as she wants to pursue a career after receiving her college education. For McLaren, that quest is to uncover the Russian doping scandal leading up to the 2016, Olympic Games, to therefore change the outcome of all of the games, and for myself, I am on a quest to receive a college education and work in the fashion industry. The reason we take on these quests may all be different…

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    Anabolic steroid use has evolved into a public health concern. Since the 1970s anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) abuse is on the rise in athletes, in recreational sports, bodybuilding and sadly, for unrealistic cosmetic enhancements. According the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance (YRBC) reveals an increase in lifetime steroid use in youth and young adults in the United States, particularly in males between the ages of 19 to 40. Information…

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    The nature of sports is the passion and desire to win, the habit of competition is second nature to us humans and most athlete’s would do anything to come out on top of their opponents. However the decision is up to us to chose whether we want to make the right decision or wrong. Most would take the time and improve by working hard this being mentally and physically, however there are some athlete’s who would rather take the easy way out and use drugs to improve their skills. This is where drug…

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    Steroid and blood doping are forbidden practices in athletic events, because they provide an unfair advantage to an otherwise level playing field. This cannot be compared to the usage of the love drug because it would be used to supplement and help an adult care for a child…

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    way that competitors will quit using the medications is whether they get a lifetime restriction from the game they cherish playing. The complicity of medicinal experts and shadowy labs are frequently included. Defilement as a rule has furthermore doping are being used in both amauter and expert games. It has taken the character of a symmetric danger. A considerable measure of competitors that cherish the game is that you will do anything to win and the aggressive game can be…

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    players contain within themselves [and having] the resources they need to bring out their personal best, doping diverts sport away from its true purpose. It prevents it from being a school for human behaviour” (Commission). Athletes want to be the best they can at their sport, but sometimes their best is not good enough to get noticed so they do anything to become better, which leads them to doping. When an athlete dopes they do not think it will affect much until they start destroying their…

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