Drugs in sport

history of using performance enhancing drugs (PED). In fact, from a recent Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) ballot he received under 50 percent of the vote when he needed at least 75 percent of the vote from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America in order to be elected into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. Barry Bonds is just one of many athletes who have had a bad reputation for using PEDs during their career. Performance enhancing drugs can help an athlete’s…

According to World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), a substance is banned if it meets two of the three following criteria; the potential for enhancing performance, the potential for detriment to health, and violation of the spirit of sport. However, if an athlete has a medical condition that requires them to take the medication, the athlete must apply for an exemption. The World Anti-Doping Agency have a prohibited list which contains; five classes of prohibited substances, three prohibited methods of…

Drugs that are used to enhance performances in professional sport has one big positive, to win. But when weighing up positives and negatives, the negatives have the upper hand. I will be agreeing with the negatives with these three reasons. The effect on the sportsman's self esteem and others, the feeling of being cheated on or let down. How quickly the word spreads, in seconds internationally everyone knows the crime the accused sportsman's committed. And also the consequences that comes with…

Steroids for Athletes I am currently writing and informing you about a massive drug called steroids. Steroids are like a superman pill that helps you gain muscles extremely fast. There are many types of steroids, but all have the same meaning, they give an exceptional amount of energy that pushes you to work much harder. Steroids can be good and bad at the exact same time. It promises you more muscle, which is 95 percent of the time correct, but what it doesn’t tell you is that steroids can take…

the Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) (the Crimes Act).These offences were introduced by the Crimes Amendment (Integrity in Sports) Act 2013 (Vic) which came into effect on 24 April 2013. The new offences reveal the Victorian Government’s aim to address the main objective of the National Policy on Match-Fixing in Sport (the National Policy). The objective is to protect the integrity of Australian sport and pursuing a nationwide consistent approach to criminal…

steroids have a few uses that include medical uses and a use of gaining an competitive edge in a lot of sports. There are also great medical uses for androgens and anabolic steroids but in turn there are also horrible side effects. Some athletes use steroids to build muscle and enhance performance. Anabolic steroids are illegal and prohibited, both in competition in collegiate and professional sports. Anabolic steroid use is also prohibited by the International Olympic Committee as well as the…

Olympic drug testing in international athletes is a huge topic on todays Olympic games. A lot of opinions are shared and a lot of problems are to be dealt with. 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…

Sports coaches shouldn’t tell sportsman they will make it to the top when they not Many sports coaches around the world tell their players they have the potential to make it the top even if they don’t. This is wrong as lying is unethical, the sportsman are given false hope and if the sportsman finds the coach is lying the relationship is significantly lowered. This is wrong as they are others ways to motivate sportsman rather than lying to them. Firstly, lying is unethical and well-known as a…

athletic performance. It is a topic with a lot of controversy and debate around it when associated with athletics. Most people argue that it is illicit and should be viewed as unlawful. Though the question I want to know is, if it is ethical? Many sports prohibit gene doping for athletes in the Olympics and Paralympics however this is not in the MLB, NBA, and the NFL. That does not necessarily mean it is allowed to do. The U.S has no laws specifically banning gene doping because they aren't…

The 2002 Winter Olympic Games should have been highlighted by the great accomplishments of athletes such as the Canadian men’ ice hockey team or Apolo Ohno. Instead, these Olympic games are mainly remembered for the number of scandals that surrounded the international event. First, it was found that the President and Vice President of Salt Lake Bid Committee were both caught offering bribes to various members of the IOC. Second, during the pairs’ figure skating competition, dual gold medals were…