Tour de Georgia

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?")…

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…

Everyone has their favorite celebrities whether is from sports, entertainments, or etc. Those celebrities in the spotlight always use their own story to inspire us. My favorite celebrity is Michael Jordan, and I obsessed with his basketball talents, shoe brand, and style of play. I would practiced 4 to 5 hours a day, for I just want to be like him in the basketball court. All of Jordan’s moves in the court and his lifestyle are attractive to me. In the article, Seeing by Starlight: Celebrity…

Remember. Oh, remember the family vacations of the past where the kinfolk waits in a long line for the next tour of yet another cathedral. The sun is torrid, and the air is stagnant. Add to that, one of the other line dwellers is emitting a stench that is akin to a livestock cesspool. “Let’s go home!” screams the nine-year-old. Onlookers whisper and throw “dagger…

need to use any type of drugs to win events at the Olympic Games. It's frequently used today by most winners. Lance Armstrong is one of those people who was doping and got 7 gold medals at the Tour De France. In the article, Ian Steadman makes a good point about how “Nearly every recent winner of the Tour de France has been implicated in doping”(Steadman). Its really hard to find someone now that isn't using drugs, it's almost become a lifestyle for athletes. Another example is that some…

Lance Armstrong was not always born a great athlete. Just like ordinary people, practice makes perfect. Lance’s mother, Linda, was 12 when she had him. When he was just a baby, his father moved out. Furthermore, Linda remarried to Terry Armstrong, and he formally adopted Lance. Terry and Lance never closely bonded, then he got his first bike. Linda managed to buy him his first bike, a Schwinn Mag Scrambler. After she divorced Terry, Linda was fully devoted to her son, “She instilled all her…