www.thelancet.com Medicine and Sport Vol 366 December 2005 S21 The rules of sport define a level playing field on which athletes compete. Antidoping policies exist‚ in theory‚ to encourage fair play. However‚ we believe they are unfounded‚ dangerous‚ and excessively costly. The need for rules in sports cannot be dismissed. But the anchoring of today’s antidoping regulations in the notion of fair play is misguided‚ since other factors that affect performance—eg‚ biological and environmental
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Balanced Diet for Athletes A balanced diet is a diet that provides all the essential nutrients in sufficient quantity and in the correct proportions to promote good health. The six main classes of nutrients are carbohydrate‚ fat‚ protein‚ vitamins‚ minerals‚ and water. Good nutrition is essential for optimal performance of athletes. The nutritional requirements differ among athletes and these depend on their age‚ body size‚ and intensity of their sport or training programme. In athletes‚ good nutrition
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Paying College Athletes Should College Athletes Be Paid a Salary Being a college athlete is a stressful and tiring job to maintain. Student athletes’ schedules are filled with sports and school work ‚ with little to no time for anything else.They barely have any time to make money legally outside of school. Most college athletes do not have any money to spend on things such as late night snacks‚ movies or other inexpensive things and entertainment. Really the only student athletes that have additional
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not college athletes should be paid is like the “The Mobius Effect”- it only has one side. College athletes ought to be paid for their services as entertainers; consider the profits that sports industries make off of them. The college sports industry generates $11 billion in annual revenues. Fifty colleges report annual revenues that exceed $50 million. Meanwhile‚ five colleges report annual revenues that exceed $100 million. - According to “The Case for Paying College Athletes”. Evidently the
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Athletes as Role Models Athlets have been lookd up to as role models for as long as sports have exsted. There is just something attractive about the thought of being in good physical condition and being talented in sports. But‚ are athlets the kind of people that children should be looking up to for direction and guidance? Many children often look up to the professional athletes as role models. In fact‚ in 1995 Sports Illustrated for Kids did a survey for kids who were ages 7 through 12 about
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Paying Student-Athletes Paying Student-Athletes Imagine this; Mr. Perfect‚ a highly successful college football student-athlete‚ is shattering every record once held in the sport. He is on the cover of ESPN and SI magazine. His face is plastered on televisions nationwide. Everyone knows his face and name. He has all the fame that he dreamed of‚ but he has no money. NCAA rules state that no student-athlete can obtain a job. His full ride scholarship‚ after classes and books‚ barely
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There are five causes of climate‚ latitude‚ elevation‚ ocean/wind currents‚ terrain and closeness to large bodies of water. There are many types of climates. Two interesting climates are the Mediterranean climate and Ice Cap climates. These two climates are very different. The Ice cap climate is located only near the poles‚ while the Mediterranean climate is mostly located on the western sides of continents. The first climate is Mediterranean. This climate is located between the 30 and 45 degree latitudes
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Do athletes genuinely deserve piles of money just by playing a game when a person is running a country or saving lives? Many professional athlete acquires millions of dollars. Some people believe that these athletes have unfair salaries. Athletes are overpaid that the amount they receive is just unfair. Furthermore‚ they’re obtaining stacks money than people who saves lives similar to a surgeon which seems unfair. They don’t even achieve close to the amount of money athletes retrieve. In the other
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Eating Disorders in Athletes When we see a gymnast or a wrestler on television‚ we sometimes marvel at how good their body looks‚ and how physically fit they are. As these athletes may indeed have thin‚ well toned bodies‚ some of them may be a result of eating disorders. Both male and female athletes are at risk for eating disorders‚ although there is a greater probability that a female athlete will be the victim. Sports that have a high percentage of athletes with eating disorders include:
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Training the Female Athlete In this Podcast‚ Peter Melanson interviews Diane Vives – director of Vives Training Systems in Austin‚ Texas‚ on training female athletes. Peter asks Diane a series of questions in regards to female athletes versus male athletes on how to train better‚ the differences between training‚ and the types of injuries caused from the training between men and women athletes. Diane answers with questions with research and studies that supports her theories and reasoning’s to
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