World Anti-Doping Agency

called off due to the WWⅡ. In this period, the influence of WWⅡ was seen everywhere in the world and London Olympic in 1944 also resulted in cancelleration. Althogh almost entire world especially European continent was under the…

performance- enhancing drug use in professional and amateur sports. In the world of sports, performance enhancing drugs and blood doping can cause health problems, damages to…

All around the world, sports are played to maintain physical fitness and competing to put one’s physical abilities to the test. Athletes everywhere dedicate themselves to their sport; training to be the best at what they do in order to compete and win. A majority of pro athletes spend their lives, or a big part of it training to make it to the top. Players who dope, or use performance enhancement drugs to better their physique and abilities, should be considered ineligible to participate in the…

the athletes really did work their hardest to achieve where they are on that day. Although Lance Armstrong and Ben Johnson may have good reason, all team members should be drug tested in order to compete in the Olympic games because new rules for anti-doping have been made, and once local athletes test positive for performance enhancing drugs, they should start thinking of new lives as codes seem to have nothing in place for them. Lance Armstrong a pro-cyclist for over 13 years, made many…

“Performance-Enhancing Drugs Should Be Legalized” by Stephen Wang. The article focuses on the idea that performance-enhancing drugs being legalized would be beneficial for the world of sport. There are conflicts with regulating drugs because of design. There are perspectives on how doping may be medically supervised. There is the exploration of doping to win is a necessity. It would be a difficult task to catch dopers. A main concern for legalizing performance-enhancing drugs is to figure out…

of anti-doping programs are increasingly complex and difficult to manage” (p.2). Because of these challenges sport organizations as institutions have dedicated resources towards developing policies and implementing preventative and controlling measures to ensure that the “purity of the sport” remains an important facet of the institution. Prohibited or banned substances refer to any substances indicated on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) prohibited list as sanctioned by the World Anti-…

“the triple crown”. 1993 was also a big year for Armstrong as he competed in his first Tour de France where he won the eight stage before eventually pulling out of the competition. In August of 93’ Lance became the youngest person ever to win the World Road Race Championship which was held in Oslo, Norway. In 1995 Lance finally won the Tour DuPont. At the Tour DuPont in 1996 Armstrong set several records, including largest margin of victory and fastest average speed in a time trial. Armstrong…

athletes across sporting fields seek new ways to achieve their intended outcomes. In today’s era, the easy accessibility to pharmacy’s, doctors and physicians who are in a position of power to prescribe medicine with a purpose to relieve pain, act as an anti-depressant, stimulant or sedative, it seems common for some professional athletes to be consuming some form of prescription or non-prescription drug. This paper will focus on school leavers in a sporting…

Should performance enhancing drugs (such as steroids) be accepted in sports? James kirkup M.A. made a statement on Nov.10.2015 on the article titles “athletics doping crisis is just another reason to allow drugs in sports” he states that “ what should happen is this: doping should be allowed. In this article the argument for steroids and other performance enhancement drugs comes down to “why do we need to ban them?” James Kirkup is open minded to not only allow use in sports but in gene…

Contributions, and Doping Allegations Lance Edward Armstrong is an American Professional Road Racing Cyclist and a testicular cancer survivor. He is the 1993 Elite Men's Road Race World Champion and won the Tour de France seven times back to back from 1999 to 2005 (“Lance Armstrong”). In between his success of becoming the most world famous cyclist came complication. The actual question society tries to solve is: does Lance Armstrong's philosophical and social contributions outweigh his doping…