Clenbuteroid Doping Should Be Banned

Blood doping is a very controversial issue among the athletic community and continues to grow. The reasons why the use of blood doping has become so much more common include

For many years sports have played huge roles in human’s everyday lives. From entertainment, political, financial and to actually competing in them. The task for the sportsmen or women, especially in the top rank, is to beat the other competitors and get a good result from it. Here there is a high amount of pressure on many athletes coming from the media, coaches, themselves etc. They have the wanting to do well and achieve their goals and aims so much that some of the athletes turn to performance enhancing drugs. Obviously training for competition is the main thing to do but using drugs is another helper to succeeding. So, to their way of thinking, doping does not seem like cheating it just seems like

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.

Everyone has heard of Lance Armstrong, famous cyclist who won Tour de France 7 consecutive time in a row. Impressive, right? It would be if hadn’t won those competitions with the help of blood doping and drug use. Lance Armstrong was stripped of his title and bronze Olympic medal for the illegal athletic gain and his reputation went to absolute shambles. Steroid use in professional sports is not allowed and results in consequences, varying by sport; but in the Olympics, as The Baltimore Sun states, it takes two positive drug tests to be banned for life from anymore olympic competing.

Steroids are often caught in sports like baseball and basketball. “On August 23, 2012 Lance Armstrong was stripped of seven Tour De France titles for the use of anabolic steroids.” Another case, “Mike Jacobs, a first baseman on the Colorado Rockies organization who has played over 500 games in the major leagues, including dozens with the Mets, is the first professional baseball player to test positive for steroids, a banded performance-enhancing drug” (Jenkins). There are many drugs banned in sports, steroids being one of them.

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

It creates the demand to use steroids, because if you do not perform well, you will miss out on the “glory” of it all. When Ben Johnson tested positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol three days after his record making 100 metre run, he was among six of the eight finalist who tested positive for doping (Telegraph 2013). The same goes for Lance Armstrong, who admitted to using multiple performance enhancing drugs. However, he was not the only one who did it in those Tour de France races. During Armstrong’s seven year window between 1999 and 2005, 87% of the top 10 cyclists were confirmed to be, or accused of doping (Cork 2015). All of this derives from group conformity. If you want to maintain your spot, you want to conform to what the group is doing, because you could be the one falling behind (Macionis, Gerber 2014). If Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson not have used those performance enhancing drugs, they would not have won those

In the middle of the 20th century, a troublesome problem arose in the sports world: doping. In the 1960s, the first evidence that athletes were using performance-enhancing drugs surfaced (Catlin, Fitch, and Ljungqvist 104). Even though significant evidence prevailed that athletes used the drugs to increase their athletic performance, there was no way to detect drug use. People did not know what to think of the problem, but when a cyclist died at the 1960 Olympic Games from doping, sports organizations started to take action (Catlin, Fitch, and Ljungqvist 100). Scientists went to work looking for a way to detect performance-enhancing drugs in athletes. It took several years before any reliable drug testing methods came about. During the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup in 1966, the first drug test was performed (Hanstad, Smith, and Waddington 229). In the following year, more sports organizations took a stance against drugs in sports. Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and the

competitive advantage against their opponents. Numerous athletes have been exposed for their illegal substance abuse or “doping.” Athletes, such as New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriquez, were caught with performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in their systems and suspended from their respected sports. Cyclist Lance Armstrong made international headlines when he admitted to using banned performance enhancers during his career, stripping him of his seven Tour de France titles. Hall of Fame-worthy baseball players from the 90’s to 2000’s were denied entrance because they played in the “steroid era.” There are easily several noteworthy cases of illegal substance abuse every year. Along with the increase of use among athletes, the use of PEDs among America’s youth is increasing each year. Most athletic enthusiasts with basic

The article has increased my knowledge on how EPO, testosterone and human growth hormones are the most commonly used drugs in cycling. It explored how the performance level of cyclist's was so high and this was because they were using performance enhancing drugs. I realised that the cyclist was taking the drugs because everyone was and there was very little chance of being caught. Armstrong admitted to using them because everyone in the field was and he believed he couldn't win without taking them. Armstrong at the time didn't even consider it cheating. It was just something you did if you wanted to win. Drugs in cycling lead to an environment where people weren't winning because they had trained the hardest and had the most ability but rather an environment where they didn't even consider taking performance enhancing drugs as cheating. The consequences and prospect of being caught were always there, but the cyclist were willing to cheat even though they could potentially lose everything; respect, titles and trust. The article also increased my knowledge on how they got away with it for so long. The drug use in cycling was occurring so much over Armstrong’s time because the drug testers didn't have a way to find out whether the cyclist were

I think that doping is a bad way to enhance one’s abilities in athletics because it is basically cheating. Unless that you are proven to have a serious medical condition and that you have to take a steroid for that reason only, not to compete, then it is fine to use. David Millar learned the hard way when he was doping in cyclist races. He didn’t care whether people thought he doped or not because all he wanted was to win in professional races. In order to get successive results, he doped, but his consequences were dire because the steroids suppressed his immune system making his body vulnerable to infections. On top of that, the amount of stress on his body was massive resulting with bronchitis after his second place victory. I think he learned

The athletes who use drugs are cheating. They disobey the law and escape the punishment due to the advanced technology which makes it harder to detect the drugs. So, more and more athletes choose to improve their performance by this way. Furthermore, athletes show no respect to themselves and spectators if they take in drugs before the competition. Maybe they do not believe that they have the ability to achieve good results after hard training or can not bear the pressure of failure due to less training. What the spectators want to see is the real ability of the athletes though they also want to watch excellent competitions. In addition, the athletes who use drugs will never experience the joy and fun during the competitions and training. For the athletes who want to use drugs in games, what they are thinking about is only the medals, awards and money, they never really think of the significance of sports so they cannot enjoy the process of the competitions and training.

In 2012 the greatest cycling doping scheme fell apart around the ringleader, Lance Armstrong. He was called a cheat, bully, and stripped of all seven of his consecutive Tour De France yellow jerseys. At the heart of all of this was a drug called EPO and a method called blood doping. In an investigation by the International Cycling Union (UCI) they found that the period between 1990 and 2000 to as an “epo epidemic” (Lodewijkx 3). And even now dozens of professional athletes get banned over the use of this substance every year. After the “witch-hunt” that was the trial and eventually lifetime banning of Lance Armstrong from professional cycling there is evidence that rHuEPO may not even help these world class athletes perform any better than non-rHuEPO using athletes. The largest problem in cycling today is the instantaneous bans and little investigation that goes along with the use of rHuEPO by the UCI. This essay asserts that the UCI instead of putting these harsh bans on the athletes should examine: rHuEPO physiologically rather than through speculative models, the extent which a cyclist’s performance is enhanced in a true race environment, and the psychological fallacies that come with rHuEPO use and cyclists who win a lot so they may eliminate rHuEPO use.

Doping has been present in the Tour de France cycling races since 1903. Doping is when a drug is taken by an athlete to improve his or her performance. In the beginning, Tour cyclists would ingest alcohol, ether, and other addicting substances, to dull the pain in endurance cycling competitions. Later on, riders began using substances and drugs to improve their performance and endurance, rather than diminishing the pain. Soon the government and other people began to notice these practices, so they formed organizations such as the Tour and the International Cycling Union to battle them. From around 1903 to the 1940s doping was considered acceptable, but in the 1950s and 1960s people started to take an anti-doping approach. The first doctor as an advocate for the testing and decrease of doping was Pierre Dumas. He held this movement for cycling, as well as something so international, the Olympic Games. Eventually, testing riders in the cycling road races were being carried out, and several athletes were found positive for performance enhancing drugs and were suspended or disqualified from their races.

The question of drug use among athletes in what was previously considered by the unknowing public to be a rather pristine sport, cycling, is important in that it will affect all future Tours and will place them and the athletes under scrutiny. To begin with, in Europe until the 1998 scandal occurred, despite a few exceptions, cycling was considered a drug free sport. The 1998 drug scandal tarnished the Tour de France and the reputation and image of other sports. The media response to the scandal took differing positions on what should be done next to clean up cycling. The scandal also affected advertisements, sales, and without question the 1999 Tour and Lance Armstrong. Since even the most naïve fan no longer trusts the cyclists,