Fearless Tour

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…

have direct athletic kinship to a celebrity endorser, he may still be immensely persuaded by the celebrity’s advertisement. This short commercial uses Armstrong’s confession to being diagnosed with cancer, beating it, and continuing to win several Tour de France races to grip the viewer with a potent amount of pathos and ethos to promote its brand and preserve its status on the market. Opening with Armstrong’s public announcement of his case of testicular cancer, the advertisement immediately…

Niam Edralin per 7 Sports: Strength, Success, and Then There are Steroids Imagine your favorite athlete winning gold in the Olympics but only because they cheated by using steroids. What a horrible way to win! Steroids are ruining the fun and pride in all sports. I personally believe that steroids are just abolishing all athletes’ hard work. First of all, the use of steroids is simply unfair. Additionally, the user of steroids will have to pay fines for…

(Christian Laborde, Tour and Pyrenees). The scenery that can be witnessed, is one that cannot be resisted. The Pyrenees Mountain Trip is one thing, if available, may only come once and is an opportunity to not pass up. With the euro and the dollar being about equal, making the trip affordable, at this time. However, it may not be for long. Accordingly, if this opportunity is not taken advantage of soon, then it could be missed out on. As said by Christian Laborde in the Tour and Pyrenees, they…

among endurance athletes such as cyclists to accelerate recovery. After these major turning points in the history of PED use in cycling, numerous deaths and positives tests would follow. This included the PED cases of Marco Pantani, Giro d’Italia, Tour de France, Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador (Esteban, 2012). The historical overview of cyclists’ use of PEDs clearly highlights the many flaws in the governing of the sport and suggests that major actions are needed to make cycling a more…

Artur Brito is on a unique mission to spread affection and goodwill and to champion the reason for mankind. What makes Artur unique is that regardless of life not giving him the best cards, he has gone ahead to make the best of everything and praise life to the full. His being a vagrant or losing his left leg in a motorbike mishap 25 years prior has not held him down. He simply finished the greatest test he set for himself in life, to ride a 125 cc bike from his home in Portugal to Kathmandu…

Performance-enhancing drug regulation and law, a crucial matter involving twenty-first-century sports analyzers and health experts, sparked a national dispute. Henceforward the Ancient Greeks held the first Olympic Games, performance-enhancing drugs destroyed the values of professional sports; ethics, respect, fair play, and honesty (Lavin 6). The legalization of performance-enhancing drugs will negatively influence an athlete's life. Performance-enhancing drugs jeopardize the health of users.…

In ancient civilizations of South America, athletes chewed coca leaves to make them mentally alert as well as alleviate pain. (Bjornlund 12). The doping controversy began in 1865 when canal swimmers in Amsterdam, Holland were the first athletes to be charged with doping (Timeline). Doping in sports became a problem because growing use of drugs came with growing risks to athletes, as well as dangerous incidents led to measures being taken (Bjornlund 13). There are two points of views concerning…

Armstrong and his team (U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team) then went on to win the Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005! (Biography.com Editors 2015.) Armstrong became an instant American hero. The Tour de France is the world's biggest annual sporting event. To illustrate, “nearly two-hundred cyclists race over two-thousand two-hundred miles in just twenty-three days.” ("What is the Tour de France?")…

On January seventeenth and eighteenth of the year two thousand and fifteen, thousands of Americans tuned in to OWN (Oprah Interview Network) to watch the Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. The ninety minute interview was done in Mr. Armstrong’s home located in Austin, Texas. Winfrey conducted this interview with Armstrong to address the public U.S. reports of him using banned substances during his professional cyclist career. For years he denied the fact of ever using any type of…