Lance Armstrong Doping In Sport

Athletes from all over the world use athletic performance enhancing drugs to boost their performance for various reasons. The highest level of sports, the Olympic Games, is the pinnacle for athletes around the world, so the prospect of winning a medal at the games can inspire cheating. Virtually every athlete’s dream is to become an Olympic gold medalist so doping surrounds the Olympic Games. Olympic sports go further than the measure of athletic brilliance and dominance. Sports on a global spectrum are about more than winning trophies and medals; they are an important part of social culture and they enhance our everyday lives. The present-day global sports industry is worth several hundred billion, so it makes up a huge part of global civilization

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

A number of prominent athletes have recently experienced a 'fall from grace,' because of the revelation that they used performance-enhancing drugs. Perhaps the most famous example of this phenomenon is Lance Armstrong. In an advertisement for Nike that his former sponsor now no doubt regrets, Armstrong is shown asking the viewer "what am I on? I'm on my bike, busting my ass six hours a day." Professional cycling is often cited as one of the sports in which doping is most endemic to its subculture, however a number of professional sports have been embroiled in drug scandals. Because of the many revelations about the number of baseball players who used steroids to get their record-breaking statistics, the 1990s are often called the 'steroid' era of baseball. The Olympic track and field star Marian Jones was stripped of her medals, after finally admitting to the use of performance-enhancing drugs (Lardon 2008). "Despite the health risks, and despite the regulating bodies' attempts to eliminate drugs from sport, the use of illegal substances is widely known to be rife. It hardly raises an eyebrow now when some famous athlete fails a dope test" (Savulescu, Foddy, & Clayton 2004).

Steroids cannot only affect its users and abusers, but may also affect those who associate with them. In a recent documentary about Lance Armstrong called The Armstrong Lie, it’s revealed of many people who were ruined from trying to cross him. From interviewers, to other cyclists and even his own former teammate Frankie Andreu. Andreu who played a role in the USADA’s investigation of Armstrong’s doping practices by testifying in the case revealed that after doing so a lot of people wouldn’t look at him or even shake his hand because of his allegations and he felt as though he was shunned from the planet. Lance Armstrong mislead and deceived his fans and the world in what is

Lance Armstrong and Barry Bonds were 2 very good athletes. In fact, “Barry Bonds has the record of most home runs” (Geron) and “Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France 7 times” (“Lance Armstrong Biography”). But, these two amazing athletes both have something in common. They both used PEDs. These people would not have performed as well as they did without the help of PEDs. Suzie Abernethy said, “I did not look at Lance Armstrong the same after I found out he was doping.” Without drug

Over the years, this has been forgotten as people focus only on winning. From 1968 on, hundreds of Olympic athletes have been caught doping. PED’s are considered cheating in today’s sports. Although every athlete is determined to win, PED’s have no place in sports. When athletes resort to using these drugs, the endanger their health and their safety. An example of this is the death of Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen who died in the Olympics from the use of amphetamines which caused him to lose consciousness and fall from his bicycle to his death. Another consequence of PED use is setting a bad example and being a bad role model. In 2007 many fans were let down when Barry Bonds tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. Many fans, both young and old, looked up to Barry and were disappointed with his choices. With so many baseball players using performance-enhancing drugs today, the integrity of the game has been lost. The players who use PED’s negatively affect the players who play the game without cheating. One of the worst consequences of all for using PED’s is being suspended or banned. Since the 1960’s, the technology for PED testing has improved and more athletes have been caught, suspended or

Performance enhancing drugs have affected these athletes in a many different ways, such as letting all of their fans and people that look up to them down by using the steroids to enhance their performance. Not only are they hurting themselves, but they are hurting their family, friends, and supporters. All of these athletes have all had similar negative outcomes. All of these athletes would want to perform to the best of their ability. In the end, Alex Rodriguez, Lance Armstrong, Tyson Gay, and Marion Jones’ careers have all plummeted. Alex Rodriguez got suspended for 162 games, Lance Armstrong has been banned from all events revolving around road biking, Tyson Gay has been disqualified from the olympics, and Marion Jones will face jail time. Lance Armstrong once said 4"I would want to change the man that did those things, maybe not the decision, but the way he acted. The way he treated people, the way he couldn't stop fighting. It was unacceptable,

Steroids have for years been associated with cheating. Though long ago it was common practice for athletes and bodybuilders to use them in order to have an edge in order to become the best, that perception has fallen away along with the careers of many famous athletes. Today the negative connotation associated with using steroids is stronger than ever before. The most recent scandal involved the allegations that world famous cyclist Lance Armstrong, a seven time consecutive winner of the Tour de France, used performance-enhancing drugs. Armstrong later admitted to using them and was promptly banned from participating in cycling events as well as stripped of his awards.

After overcoming cancer and winning seven Tour de France races, Armstrong confessed that he had been using steroids. Fred Bowen of the Washington Post commented that “Armstrong cheated to win his championships. He took drugs and treatments that were against the rules to help make himself stronger and to pedal faster and farther” (Bowen). He also reported that Armstrong also lied for years about whether he took drugs, and he bullied anyone who said he had cheated.” That doesn’t sound too heroic. And even though Armstrong eventually confessed and showed remorse, it wasn’t quite the same as Gawain’s shameful green girdle. The cyclist had won seven Tour de France expeditions. There’s not a chance that his use of steroids was a one-time occurrence. While someone like Gawain had immediately shown regret for his misdeed, Armstrong held his in secrecy for a number of years. That is not a trait of a modern hero. A modern hero is honest and trustworthy, and makes accomplishments on his or her own natural abilities. It’s what’s valued in many cultures, and what separates modern heroes from those of classics. There is no Zeus to intervene and make life better (or possibly worse) in human

Understand that athletes want to be remembered, but is that really any reason to ruin your reputation and hurt yourself. Its not just profesionals that have been using performance- enhanced drugs. Teenagers have been using them too, American teens more than doubled in human growth hormones in the past year. Kids in high school have been under major stress and want to get scholorships to colleges. As a result of doping, high school athletes have been less focused on there school studies, and becauses of that they don’t get that scholarship anyways, because of there bad grades. Students that are taking human growth hormones get suspened from school for the number of days nessaccary and is not able to finish the rest of the sport season. Depending

Imagine playing a sport, having fun but then,someone rushes by or tackles you,looking buffed up and clearly on steroids cheating and winning the game. This carries on throughout the game as they keep on beating you and your team from size,strength and speed. Clearly this isn’t fair and makes the sport you play not fun. One quote was from one of Armstrong's former teammates,“Tyler Hamilton, who was forced to return his 2004 Olympic gold medal after being found guilty of doping. In recent public appearances, Hamilton has implored young athletes to resist the temptation to dope.” He then said to kids who take steroids,"There's so much pressure on winning—it's tough for these kids to stay true to themselves," he said (Crary).” Student athletes should be drug tested before they’re allowed to play because they might cheat, it could affect their health earlier in life, and they might have to suffer major consequences.

This paper explores the novel Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong by David Walsh, who published the novel at the end of 2012. This novel is about Walsh’s journey as he follows Lance Armstrong and his life as a cyclist for 13 years as Lance deals with critics and skepticisms about his correlation with doping. Lance Armstrong was a glorified athlete who won many Tour de France titles after conquering testicular cancer. He was widely appreciated for cycling, but many people were questioning how he was able to make such a comeback after his cancer diagnosis. This book explores what happens from David Walsh’s point of view and the struggles he had to face as a Tour de France sports journalist: whether he should just celebrate Armstrong’s victories or question his usage of drugs. The purpose of this paper is to give a brief summary of the novel, and to reflect on the novel while still linking it to the issues and concepts of drugs and cheating in sports.

The victims aren’t able to gain control back quick enough before a regulatory agency is knocking at their door. Between 1960 and 1967, two athletes, on world stages, died from doping in excessive amounts. However, despite many other cases and testings of P.E.Ds, the IOC (International Olympic Committee) didn’t ban anabolic steroids until 1975. Thirteen years later, President Reagan signed the Anti- Drug Abuse Act of 1988, making non- prescription steroids illegal. In 1991, Major League Baseball was done with the pastime being destroyed by shots of testosterone, and banned steroids. Throughout the next twenty years, there would be many cases of record setting athletes being stripped of title and

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

Lance Armstrong destroyed his reputation just like Braun by taking steroids. However, Armstrong denies his steroid use, but he has stopped fighting the United States Anti-Doping Agency accusations (“Peddling” par. 2). His defense in