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    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…

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    Doping in sports Considering in doping in sports? Think twice before considering it although it may have positive results. But should the average athlete consider doping in their sport not promising positive results? There are many of athletes doping in their sport(s) and is very dangerous as it can cause short and long-term injuries to the human body. Doping in sports goes way back to ancient Greek Olympic and Roman gladiators to current day with professional sports. There are many…

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    Is Doping in Sports OK? 73 home runs in a single MLB season. That is almost an unthinkable thing to accomplish at the highest level of baseball. When Barry Bonds completed this feat in 2001, many people speculated on whether or not he was helped in any way… they meant steroids. Doping, which is the use of steroids, is now a major issue within pro sports and has helped many athletes accomplish feats they might not have otherwise done. Even though doping does not always make that much of a…

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    There will be a decline in health problems associated with medical supervision due to the awareness of what is dangerous and what is not. On the other end of the argument I draw from two different articles. The first article is called Why Athletic Doping Should Be Banned by Eric Chwang. His (2012) central view revolved around protecting athletes from harm. Chwang used the term ‘game-theoretic’ to compile his argument, the term combined different arguments he brought up within his paper which…

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    Performance enhancing drugs should be legal to provide better and faster healing, but anti-doping efforts should be betterly enforced for fairness of competitions and legitimacy of gold medal winnings. With the various arguments against doping or with doping, you can 't deny the fact that there are many perils of using performance enhancing substances and many consequences in the Olympic games if caught doping, Such as being suspended for 2 years, then banned for life if there is multiple…

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    Contributions, and Doping Allegations Lance Edward Armstrong is an American Professional Road Racing Cyclist and a testicular cancer survivor. He is the 1993 Elite Men's Road Race World Champion and won the Tour de France seven times back to back from 1999 to 2005 (“Lance Armstrong”). In between his success of becoming the most world famous cyclist came complication. The actual question society tries to solve is: does Lance Armstrong's philosophical and social contributions outweigh his doping…

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    The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization division on anti-doping believes that “doping jeopardizes the moral and ethical basis of sport and the health of those involved in it.” The National Football League itself created its own steroid policy because steroid use threatens “the fairness and integrity of athletic competition”…

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    Implicit Association Test

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    two group thoughts regarding doping were measured using a testing tool, the brief implicit association test (BIAT). BIAT is a picture-based discussion test. The procedure uses pictures depicting doping, each picture has a series of questions and answers options. Their (Brand et al., 2014) premise that using BIAT tool, other tools tend to be questionnaires, with athletes result in a more concise quantitative measure of the athlete’s attitudes and propensity for doping. To establish and validate…

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    and joy; teamwork; dedication and commitment; respect for rules and laws; respect for self and other participants; courage; community and solidarity. Reasoning to many programs why doping is fundamentally contrary to the spirit of sport. In fact, there is evidence that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) reasons that doping is one of the most important and difficult problems confronting sports today. "Clearly,…

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    Persuasive Essay On Golf

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    There is a problem that has plagued the nations of the world, including the American Public for an exceedingly long time, since before the handheld mobile phone being tapped by the government, since before the unrest in the middle east, since before the people were aware we were melting the ice caps. I’m not talking about the laws of war, I am talking about a much larger battlefield, one upheld in the minds & hearts of gentlemen as well as ladies who duel to uphold their honor along with their…

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