Marie de France

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…

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 fair…

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?")…

Paris, France There are many sites to see all over the world that are very interesting and have a lot of history behind them. For example, the pyramids in Egypt and Big Ben in London, England. Lets focus on just one part of the world that I find very fascinating. This place is called Paris. Paris is located in France and is actually the capital. Paris is well known for many things such as the Eiffel Tower, shopping, Art, and many more things. In this paper, I plan on going into great detail…

War and dealing with loss, Victor Hugo helped to define the romantic movement in France through his writing. His works include many poems, books, and plays revolving around love and politics. Many of his works were either published or performed during his life. While Victor Hugo is known for his many works during the romantic movement, he wrote his most famous works around the time of the French Civil War. Victor Marie Hugo was born to an aristocratic mother and a father who was a major in…

Born near Rodez, France in the year 1787, a newborn girl named Marie Guillemette Emilie de Rodat born into the family. When she was 18 months old, she lived with her grandmother near Villefranche-de-Rouergue. At age 18, she became a geography teacher. Couple years later, she quickly decided to join three different orders. She first joins the Ladies of Nevers, then the Picpus Sisters, and lastly the Sisters of Mercy, however, she sensed that nothing was right for her. In the year 1815, she heard…

France France is an amazing country, Paris also known as the city of love which holds the famous Eiffel Tower is its capital. The official Language Is french which is spoken by 88% of the population. Other languages Include english, spanish, and german. France is located Right above Spain and below Belgium and Germany, and on the coast of the bay of biscay. Some major cities include Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Nantes, Lyon, and Strasbourg.Paris and Marseille being the first and…