When watching someone participate in any sport‚ the audience thinks about how much effort was put into practicing‚ and not what the player smoked to gain their superhuman stamina. In sports‚ the competitors need to practice to become better‚ not default to who has the money to buy the best drugs. Performance enhancing drugs may help during a couple of games‚ but it’s not worth putting so many lives at risk. Forest Tennant JR.‚ who is an NFL drug adviser‚ has estimated that half of all professional
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Why are named drugs used in sports? When we exercise‚ there is an increase in the blood flow which provides the muscles with a constant supply of oxygen and nutrients and all the toxic waste products are removed from the body by this metabolism. There are many instances where an athlete has used a drug to enhance the desired output in an unfair and illegal manner. Such a practice is termed as “doping”. Eventually in the long run‚ the effect of drug taking leads to other mental disorders and even
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Professor McDonnell Performance Enhancing Drugs in Professional Sports: Fair Game or Foul Called? “To give anything less than your best‚ is to sacrifice the gift.” – Steve Prefontaine The drive to be the best is incredible. Everywhere a person looks‚ there is a constant reminder of greatness. From the models in the magazines to the athletes on the playing field‚ these people are idolized. In today’s society‚ there is always pressure to be the best at what you do. Children are taught that to be the
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atomic bombs were developed‚ nuclear technology has providedgovernments with the ability to totally destroy the planet. Yet thetechnology has been put to positive use as an energy source and incertain areas of medicine. To what extent is nuclear technology a danger to life on Earth? What arethe benefits and risks associated with its use?3People in all modern societies use drugs‚ but today’s youth areexpertimenting with both legal and illegal drugs‚ and at an increasinglyearly age. Some sociologists
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penalty for drug cheats in sport Hello fellow students of Taylors Lakes Secondary College. Today I will be speaking about performance enhancing drugs in sport‚ and why there should be harsher penalties for athletes who use them. In order to become a successful athlete‚ you must dedicate a large part of your life to that sport. This is the reason why athletes get paid so much‚ because they have put in so much work in order to entertain audiences. And its one of the many reasons why drug cheats should
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To what extent is the commercialisation of sport a positive trend? Negative I feel that commercialisation of sports is bad as it denies the sport players of their privacy. As the players would be constantly under the limelight‚ details of their lives‚ both the good and the bad‚ are released to the public. For example‚ in the recent Tiger Wood’s scandal involving his many mistresses‚ his private life was broad casted to the public‚ attracting many criticisms. Therefore‚ the commercialization of
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Drug Use in Sports (Editorial sports) The use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) has always been a controversial topic in sports. It is considered illegal because those drugs give athletes some sort of super powers that make them perform better over others. Athletes who will be caught drug cheating will face penalties or a ban once caught. But it seems that those punishments don’t threaten drug cheaters because the number of athletes who use those drug is still the same or higher. But have they
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psychoactive drugs. The first category is problems directly related to taking the drug‚ such as the risk of overdose. The second category is problems related to the fact that the use of certain drugs is illegal and associated with social problems such as the cost of treating drug dependence and incarcerating drug offenders. American society has changed from being one that tolerated a wide variety of individual drug use to being one that attempts strict control over some types of drugs. This change
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years ago‚ drug testing in sport was in its beginning stages. Now‚ it is complex and in constant change. Keeping sport clean has become a never-ending race between drug testers and those who choose to cheat. And as much as the quest for the podium or championship should be the big news‚ often negative reports about positive drug tests end up overshadowing competitors’ accomplishments. The use of performance-enhancing drugs is nothing new; in fact‚ the international anxiety about drug use began
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