Blood Doping In Sports

I first learned about this topic on a television show I watch called Hawaii 5-O. The episode had a group of athletes that were blood doping in order to win bicycling races and to get a leg up on escaping the police after robbing their targets. It briefly explained what the group was doing, and why it made them have better stamina and bettered their athletic abilities. Then when Lance Armstrong was accused of many different types of performance enhancing drugs, he admitted to using blood doping among other techniques. He used the method of blood doping that utilizes EPO, which is a hormone that is produced in the kidney for RBC production. He was stripped of all the Tour de France titles in his possession and the bronze medal he won in the Olympics.

Blood doping creates unneeded risk and endangers an athlete’s life for a slightly increased chance of winning a competition. This practice should remain banned and athletes should seek alternative practices that do not come with unusual added health risks. Though there are logical arguments for each side, there is more evidence to support the argument that blood doping should not be legal in athletic competitions. There is too much risk involved for the reward to be so miniscule.

Each year an athlete's creativity comes into play to create ways to become the best in his/her competitive sports; especially when one have to use a lot of endurance and energy to win. In order to be the best you have to put in the work. Some athletes do it the hard way, such as eating healthy, exercising and training. Others use the easy way out, engaging with steroids, enhancements, and blood doping to get ahead of the competition. Many professional athletes have taken to the practice of blood doping in order to gain a competitive edge in their field. But there are those who are crying that doing so can have serious consequences not only to the sports world, but to one’s body as well. Sometimes they look for harmful procedures that increase their athletic ability but can potentially do more harm than good. In this argument, I will be discussing called induced erythrocythemia, commonly known as blood doping, which can lead to medical, physical, and psychological problems.

According to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), also the organization that creates the rules for the Olympic games involving drugs, has banned the use of PED’s because many people have abused it/used it to their own advantage for competitions. The international conference of government and sports condemned the use of PED’s and if an athlete is found making a use of these substances their sport career will resolve into a 2 year suspension, because it is a form of illegal substance. Which it could result into issues with the law. A new rule is coming upon the the Olympic games and professional sports teams that players/athletes are going to be needed blood test monthly to prevent

The severity of drug abuse should not be taken lightly. The use of performance enhancing drugs in competitive sports should definitely be illegal. Doping is using something that is above

This will result in a vicious cycle of athletes consuming harmful chemicals in higher doses and in wilder combinations (Sports and Drugs, 2018). In general, methods that grant athletes advantages over competition but harm the body should be considered unethical and should be

The person I interviewed is a 52 year old caucasian woman who is obese and smokes a half a pack of cigarettes a day. She has a health history of GERD and high cholesterol. She is a mother of two, a wife and works full time. She expressed interest in making a lifestyle change so she could be in better shape for her family and for herself.

Every athlete has wished they could jump a little higher, swim a little longer and run a little faster. Throughout the history of sport there have been accounts of chemical enhancements taken by athletes to give them this advantage. This has developed more as time has taken its grasp on modern medicinal practices. People try to obey the laws of a pure sport, yet there seems to be an increasing margin of those who “dope” and get away with it and the small group those that does not, how does this still happen? Is the solution to just allow doping? While with so much speculation and ethically derivative rhetoric to be examined, doping to increase strength in a sport is explicitly wrong to the sport itself. Chemical enhancements discredit the integrity

Blood doping creates the same effect as athletes training at high altitude locations, however blood doping is cheating. As you can see in the diagram to the right doped blood has a lot more red blood cells than normal blood. By having more red blood cells one can pump blood from their lungs to their muscles increasing one's athletic capability. Even though some see blood doping as being safer than steroids but the truth is blood doping has a large number of negative side effects. Blood doping is known to cause infections and the increased amount of blood can cause similar problems as EPO. As well as the risk of AIDS and hepatitis. Blood doping has recently become easily detectable just by looking at the amount of red blood cells one's bloodstream. Not only is the punishment for blood doping increasing, so are the number of leagues that are cracking down on blood doping. Including the of 2014 World Cup in Brazil, FIFA began a biological passport and drug testing program for footballers (soccer) meaning examining the blood of all athletes. The hope was to unifying drug testing protocols, across several levels of the sport and different competitions within the sport. (Ed. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner). Although blood doping does not seem like cheating to most the truth is that it's the exact same thing as taking

Doping is “the illegal use of a drug (such as a steroid) to improve an athlete's performance” (Merriam-Webster). There are many different types of this enhancing drug. Some are more intense than others. Androstenedione and creatine are two substances that have little harm but are still considered drugs with an unfair advantage. Androstenedione is used so athletes can get a harder workout in and recover faster. Creatine is used to

If the high school that you went to did randomized drug testing on athletes would you have been fine with it? Drug testing is violating the athletes Fourth Amendment right. The testing is a waste of money by the school. Drug testing doesn’t deter student athletes from doing drugs if he or she know it is randomized. Randomized drug testing of high school athletes is a bad idea.

Doping has widely become known as the use of banned substances and practices by sports personnel particularly athletes in an attempt to improve sporting performances. No sensible fan of sport today denies the prevalence of drugs in virtually every major sport, yet none would argue they can ever be eliminated completely. Money alone would seem to guarantee that much. High profile athletes today are competing for high stakes, not just millions, but dozens of millions. The fear of losing everything career, opportunity, contracts, name, fame, and money is pushing more sportsmen all over the world to use performance enhancing drugs, mainly

Across Europe the trend to and argument for decriminalization is on the rise. Advocates for legalization of drugs across Europe have touted Portugal 's success and have tried to use it as a unilateral expression of decriminalization as a complete success. Portugal 's success is very much also attributed to an overhaul on the healthcare and treatment of drug addicts rather than being the simple result of decriminalization (Aleem). The Czech Republic recently joined Portugal in decriminalizing drugs in 2010. The mainufacture and distribution of drugs are still highly illegal, but drug users who simply possess or even use are now free of the fear of persecution. Possession of up to 15 grams of marijuana, five grams of hash, 40 psychodelic mushrooms, one and a half grams of heroin, and a gram of cocaine are considered a usable supply of drugs in the Czech Republic. Success within the country can be measured in that roughly 70 percent of the nation 's problematic drug users maintain regular contact with outreach programs and needle exchange programs. The Netherlands has noted a drop in opiate dependencies thanks to a long-established needle exchange program along with allowing the prescription of maintenance doses of diamorphine and methadone (O 'Neill).

Drugs should be banned in all sports. They have been a problem for a long time. Athletes use them to enhance their body and for simply just the edge. There is nothing wrong with using some drugs to enhance your body as long as they are legal. The problems that come with drugs in sports are how to detect them. Some professional sports, such as the NHL, do not even use drug tests. The only sports that test for everything are the NBA and NFL. The Major League Baseball only tests for illegal drugs such as marijuana and cocaine. They do not test for steroids or any other kind of pill. The reason for this is because the player’s union will not allow these tests. They are currently voting to reconsider this idea. The other problem is that drug

We discussed the topic of biology as destiny during our second lecture. We concluded the lecture by saying that gender does contain sexuality. However, looking at lecture material, class readings, and workshop I have realized that there is more to this issue. First, society predicts and or assumes that men like playing rough and women are in love with pretty pictures, such as flowers.