Summer Olympic Games

It is the surfing championships! Five friends are competing for the same title.It is all their dreams to win this title. But who will come out on top? Tom was always the best surfer of the group. He could always seem to pull pull of a crazy trick or escape the mouth of a giant wave while making it look easy. The rest of the group thought that if any of them would have a shot at being a surfing champion it was Tom. Although later on that week they all would get that chance and nobody was…

could tell that she was not fine at all. As I helped her off the ground, Sarah came walking over with a gold medal around her neck. “Oh my goodness Lily! That was quite a stumble. I just hope you don’t do it again in the Jr. Olympics.” Sarah sneered. Lily’s face was so…

Sports and Drugs As we all know, there are many amazing athletes in the sports world today. With many skilled athletes the pressure to prepare and perform well has become increasingly harder. As an athlete I know how important it is to prepare yourself for each and every performance, but some people go to the extreme. To prepare themselves and guarantee that they will perform well many athletes will result to performance enhancement drugs, or PED’s. Living in a pill-popping, tummy tucking…

Under Armour’s new commercial is inspirational. The commercial begins with Phelps swimming, and then continues to combine his workouts inside and outside of the pool. These images personally bring me back to my last track meet, where I pushed myself as hard as I could because I would never have another moment similar. The video creates a sense of give it your all because you never know when your ability to pursue your passion will come to an end. To add to it, it tells you to push yourself even…

Introduction In this report I will be examining the topic of Drugs and Doping in Sport and whether the Australian Legal System needs to be re-evaluated to accommodate for the ever expanding list of performance enhancing drugs that are being identified and evaluated by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority to be unfair to the sport and its morals. The purpose of this report is to identify the problems in the current legal system and the focus of this report is on the establishment and…

age nineteen, after a training program that included implementation of testosterone pellets, he set a new trotting record.” (Adams 16). Humans began taking steroids in the early 1950’s when the Russian weightlifting team won 7 medals in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. The U.S. accused the Russians of using performance enhancing drugs and in 1945 U.S. team physician, John Zieglar, confirmed the Russians had cheated (Adams…

Performance Enhancing Drugs Athletes taking performance enhancing drugs is just like sitting in school taking a test and not be able to figure out the answer to a question. All of a sudden you see your classmates cheating, by taking out their phones and looking at each other papers. Many athletes who witness their peers taking drugs feel as if the said athletes are cheating their way to the top. When a bench rider suddenly rises up to star-player, many questions arise. The use of performance…

person should therefore try to avoid combining drug use with any type of physical activity.Sports were designed to be a fun and competitive way to gain exercise. They were not designed to include drug use. Communicate the serious effect of drugs on the game by asking your players to guess how their foul shots, field goals, or home runs would be affected by drugs. To put it simply, they won't happen. Scientific studies show that drugs impair coordination and abilities.The uses of drugs in sports…

My topic for my research paper will be on Louis Long also known as the Silent Warrior. Long is a pro- wrestler who’s career made a debut in 2010, he was listed in “the top 500 wrestlers by PWI Magazine in 2012.” (Allman p. 3) I choice him as my topic of choice because he inspires many and speaks out for the Deaf community, not only is he deaf himself but he doesn’t a fantastic job representing the deaf community and culture. Louis Long was born March 20, 1976 in Buffalo New York. He attended…

Company Background: The Panera Bread Company was founded in 1981 and was original named Au Bon Pain Company. In 1993 Au Bon Pain Company purchased Saint Louis Bread Company. After the purchase the company revamped and changed the name to Panera Bread. In 1997 Panera Bread was on a path to being a leader in its industry but it would require all of the financial resources of the company. May of 1999, shareholder values where over $1 million dollars. As of June 25, 2013, Panera Bread owns and…