World Anti-Doping Agency

Ethical considerations about the necessity of anti-doping laws in sports With constant scientific improvements and a rise in doping cases in sports during the last years, we have to ask the question if it is still justified to prohibit doping or if drugs should be legalised to create a more even playing field and be seen as a part of our normal evolution. The ethics of human enhancement is a part of moral philosophy, which looks at the reasons and arguments for and against the current policies…

two group thoughts regarding doping were measured using a testing tool, the brief implicit association test (BIAT). BIAT is a picture-based discussion test. The procedure uses pictures depicting doping, each picture has a series of questions and answers options. Their (Brand et al., 2014) premise that using BIAT tool, other tools tend to be questionnaires, with athletes result in a more concise quantitative measure of the athlete’s attitudes and propensity for doping. To establish and validate…

There is a problem that has plagued the nations of the world, including the American Public for an exceedingly long time, since before the handheld mobile phone being tapped by the government, since before the unrest in the middle east, since before the people were aware we were melting the ice caps. I’m not talking about the laws of war, I am talking about a much larger battlefield, one upheld in the minds & hearts of gentlemen as well as ladies who duel to uphold their honor along with their…

sport of tennis was recently caught using performance enhancing drugs. Meldonium is a drug that is quite often used amongst tennis players and other athletes. As of Friday the number of positive tests for the substance in 2016 across the sporting world was up to 140, this is becoming a huge problem for not only tennis athletes but athletes across all sport codes. What do we know about the substance, why was the Russian taking it and why was it banned only this year? Meldonium is used to treat…

testosterone and lead to fast rate protein production by muscle cells and thus achieving bigger muscles and increased endurance. The illegal use of these products to gain a competitive edge is doping. According to my research, this practice has been on the rise for decades now not only in the sports world but also among performers and the young generation in general. The fight against it is almost being lost rather than being won even after improved detection methods are being introduced to help…

ultimate athletes who all the fans around the world admired. We’ve had all kind of athletes who we looked upon or cherished through the hard training and competitiveness they always had, and this is what makes sports important because many people around the world are connected to the athletes in a way that they are personas that stick out in our daily lives. However, through the years many athletes have faced the biggest threat to the today’s sport world; the performance enhanced drugs also…

express my warm thanks to Ms. Geetanjali Chandra for providing me with this challenging project and her support and guidance. Thank you, Suprio Nath Introduction Doping, the term is used when an athlete uses prohibited or illegal drugs to improve his training & final performance. Often while talking about doping, the common drug that comes to mind is Steroids. Nonetheless…

Sports are a huge part of every country in the world. There are professional sports and they have Winter and Summer Olympics. There are even High School and College sports. In sports, there are people who try to get an upper hand and try to get an advantage in the competition they are doing. They try to get away with doping in sports, from performance enhancers to over the counter pills to calm them down or to ease the pain if they are in any. They know that it is cheating to take drugs. If they…

stroke or even cerebral or pulmonary embolism, Doping and anti-doping policy in sport (2011). Natural hormones are produce in the kidneys, but with the use of artificial EPO blood cells are increase, increasing the amount of oxygen transported to the muscles (World Anti-Doping Agency, 2017). EPO is very effective when use in medical treatments for patients whose kidneys could not produce haemoglobin at a normal rate formed, Doping and anti-doping policy in sport…

there is long term effect on the athlete’s body. Therefore, World Anti-Doping Agency and other organizations must do a better job to help athletes understand the risk of using PED. Background The Olympics began testing athletes for the use of performance enhancing drugs around 1968, the National Football League began in 1987, and the Major League Baseball began in 2003. The use of PEDs was not a crime until 1988, when Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act. Furthermore, to strengthen the act…