Corruption In Lance Armstrong's Tour De France

With all the money and fame at risk in sports, it should come as no surprise that some of these athletes make unethical decisions to ensure a higher success rate and in turn more money for themselves. The unethical decisions made by athletes involve their choice to use anabolic steroids. Sports are officiated in fairness where the same rules apply to both teams. Athletes who use steroids gain a strength, speed, and performance boost. The increase in physical attributes for an athlete allows them to have an edge against athletes who do not use the drugs. Athletes that engage in performance enhancing drug use are cheating in the sport, but it is difficult to blame them given the incredibly large salaries a successful athlete potentially could make. The average NBA player has a five million dollar salary, the average MLB player has a three million dollar salary, the average NHL player has a 2.4 million dollar salary, and the average NFL player has a salary of 1.9 million dollars. Athletes must perform very well to earn these multimillion dollar salaries and anabolic steroids allow an athlete earn these large sums of money because of positive effects the drugs produce for them. Steroids have a low cost but high reward ratio; a couple of hundred dollars spent on an anabolic steroid cycle could easily help the athlete make hundreds of thousands of dollars in return with the boosts in the performance for the sport they play. This

Lance Armstrong Oral Structure of the Oral Armstrong Lance Armstrong, the man who won the Tour de France seven times in a row. The roided up guy who beat other roided up guys in with helmets on. The man who survived brain surgery, testicular cancer and falling off a bike. The man who founded the Livestrong Foundation, a foundation which has raised over 500 million dollars for cancer without pressuring people into pouring ice over their heads.

Lance Armstrong was born in 1971 in Texas. At the age of 13 he began competing in cycling and triathlons. Armstrong soon chose to focus on cycling. In 1992 Lance Armstrong finished 2nd in the U.S Olympic trails. In 1993 21-year-old Armstrong won his most important race yet; the World Road Race championship in Oslo, Norway. In 1996 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, which halted his career. In 1998, he returned to cycling. He was back in his game. Although, Lance Armstrong was a role model to many athletes, he has admitted to using performance enhancing drugs in 2013. Athletes should not use steroids because they effect athletes mentally, physically, and jeopardize their careers.

The subject of doping is an issue in sports that is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon. The win at all costs mentality has both financial and psychological roots growing deep within sports. I too was a fan of Lance Armstrong, and his journey of overcoming cancer and winning the Tour so many times was absolutely beyond inspirational to me at the time. I was crushed when learning of his banned drug usage. Through his own admission, his usage of performance enhancers stemmed from beating cancer and developing that win at all costs mindset (Cycling, 2013). Although I do believe I understand the genesis of his attitude, Lance and others have done the world a great disservice. Anytime an athlete is at the top of the game for any great period of

The phenomenon of the blood doping in professional sports is not new; however, it remains prevalent in sports culture. With new techniques being designed to avoid detection, it could be argued that the prohibition of sports enhancing drugs in the professional sports mirror the prohibition of alcohol, making for unsafe, unsanitary and black market drug erupt. Instead of prohibition, could the professional sports community limitations in order to better allocate their money? There are great incentives to use blood doping techniques with little by way of repercussions.

Professional track and field is a sport that requires years of training, along with a healthy diet and proper recovery for a chance to become a world champion; it is also a sport in which over 50% of professional American track athletes earn less than $15,000 from annually (Marcin). Meanwhile, world champions earn enough to live in luxury, and this leads to many athletes turning to performance enhancing drugs to gain an edge over their competition. The largest group of athletes that have been accused includes over 1,000 professional track athletes in Russia. The reason they were able to do this for so long without getting caught is because Russia’s anti-doping agency was accepting bribes, and this is another reason that corruption has run so deep in track and field.

After Armstrong’s struggle with cancer, and his recovery, Armstrong took two years to retrain in order to return to professional cycling. Two short years after being declared cancer free, Armstrong participated in the Tour De France, and won. Armstrong would go on to win the next six consecutive Tour De France races, making him the only participant to hold the honor of winning seven Tour De France titles in a row (Sanderson). According to the article “Riding Along with Lance Armstrong” “In June 2012 the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) filed charges against Armstrong for violating its performance-enhancing drugs (PEDS) policies and claimed to have a growing amount of evidence against him (Sanderson).” Lance Armstrong was a legendary athlete for over a decade. However, in the end he lost everything due to his decision to participate in unethical activities and use doping to win.

Many people would wonder how he cheated as you know, in 1996, he was diagnosed with a potentially fatal metastatic testicular cancer. After his recovery, he founded the Lance the Livestrong Foundation to assist other cancer survivors. Absolutely, the cancer patients will recover is going to be difficult moreover for returned to be competitive cycling is more difficult to do therefore, he used performance-enhancing drugs, namely Erythropoietin (EPO), Testosterone supplements, Cortisone, Human growth hormone and Blood Transfusions so he can continue to bicycle race but in June, 2012 the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) alleged that Armstrong used illegal performance-enhancing drugs, and in August. The Committee said the announced order prohibiting

Not only he is a vile human being; but he is a horrible sportsman. Generally most people will agree that a good sportsman plays fair, adheres to rules, shows kindness towards their opponents, and they are often humble. However, Lance Armstrong posses none of these qualities of a sportsman. Therefore, we must erase Lance Armstrong from all of the sport history. He doesn’t deserve fame or should be banned from speaking in media and should spend rest of his life in exile.

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.

Sport is thought of as an activity that is governed by a set of rules and is engaged in competitively, while doping is the idea of using banned natural or synthetic substance for the purpose of enhancing performance in sport. In this paper I will argue against the fallacies presented on the topic of allowing doping in sports. I will argue that the notion of doping in sports is not based on sound moral reasoning and given the choice, not all athletes will chose to dope. The idea of doping in sport has been around since the early 19th century, with the first ever case being recorded at the 1896 Bordeaux-Paris race following the death of Welsh cyclist Arthur Lindon (European Commission, 2003). I will

Armstrong was stripped of all his medals in the sport of cycling for cheating for using athletic performance drugs, and committed fraud against the federal government. In October this year, Armstrong let the media know that he is a changed man. He has visited several countries to express public apologies for his past behavior. It is possible that Armstrong's actions are a strategy; he wants to be seen as a person with integrity. However, the US government does not believe his alleged new image. Armstrong recently lied to police officers in Aspen on a vehicular accident. He said his girlfriend was the one who was driving the car when it was actually not true, (Schrotenboer, October, 2015). Armstrong’s message and public apologies across the world can be considered a form of assertive

Doping in sport has been prominent since the Olympics were first introduced in Ancient Greece, with competitors supposedly ingesting Strychnine as a performance enhancer (Fitch, 2012). This has continued into today with new research commencing weekly investigating performers using performance enhancing drugs in a world where the difference between first and second can cost an athlete millions in sponsorship and reward money. The regulation of doping in sport was not introduced until the 1960’s, when the sudden death of a cyclist at the 1960 Rome Olympics was attributed to the amphetamines in his system taken as a performance enhancer. Consequently this kick started the fight against doping with the IOC creating a list of prohibited substances in 1967, containing mostly stimulants. World Anti-Doping Agency (2003 [online]) states that “The spirit of sport is the celebration of the human spirit, body, and mind.” and is characterised as keeping true to “ethics, fair play and honesty; health; and respect for rules and laws.” (p.3), this alludes to the fact that doping is in breach of these characteristics and should be eradicated to maintain the spirit of sport. This essay will review current thinking about performance enhancing drugs in elite competitions, the research undertaken and the resolutions suggested.

"Sports will either be a school of virtue or a school of vice, and that 's why the epidemic of cheating in professional sports is, and ought to be, a huge cultural concern” (Landry, 2012, para. 1). Professional sports are littered with cheating scandals and as technology advances so will access to new and clever techniques. There are many ways to cheat in sports, such as fixing games, placing bets on teams, lying about your age, and the biggest one of them all, taking performance enhancing substances. Doping is a matter of great public concern, and equally as concerning, is doping procedures that go undetected because they have been manipulated to slip under the radar.

Sports doping hasn't always been not accepted as the social society changes athlete's world so can point to views. In today’s society not much gets accepted or viewed as good. But, in ancient times the gladiators would take drugs to upgrade their performances. But there are two points of view in sports doping we know of the pros and cons in each. It’s