Zero-Tolerance In Sports

So in conclusion, collaboration from organisations world wide is needed to fund research projects, to advance the methods and technologies used in drug testing, to ensure that sport is a fair and safe environment. New Zealand athletes publically exposing cheating are bullied by opposing athletes and media. Programs are urgently needed to be put in place in countries that encourage performance enhancing drug use, to educate young athletes of the danger of doping. Stricter regulations on health and supplement industry, should be enforced on the multi-billion dollar companies, whereby they have to prove the safety of their product. These issues need to be addressed by WADA (World Anti-doping Agency) urgently. Overall these actions will minimise the disadvantages faced by New Zealand and other honest

The use of drugs date back to the ancient Olympic games. This is where the word doping originated from which was the Greek word “doop” (CITE). Performance enhancing substances also known as steroids are used for the improvement of human activity. Because drug use is also a huge thing outside the United States the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) was created as the first international governing body to prohibit doping. However, at the 1960’s Olympic the first athlete to die of doping was of the name Knut Jensen. He was a Danish cyclist who was found with narcotics in his system which resulted to his death. In result, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was established to fight doping. The United States created their own anti-doping agency called United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). Therefore, drug testing is an important factor in professional sports world-wide.

Since the original Olympic Games in ancient Greece, athletes have struggled to find a way to gain the competitive edge. Early rituals included consuming wine and brandy before an event, eating potent mushrooms, and even concocting magic potions thought to give the athlete improved performance ability (Phillips, 2000, p.53). A constant battle has been fought as the International Olympic Committee struggles to keep drug testing up-to-date and effective. We have come to associate drug use with a few famous names of fallen heroes, such as Ben Johnson and the most recent, C.J. Hunter, but few people realize just how widespread drug use is in Olympic sports and how small a

Substance Use & Misuse, written by Michael S. Bahrke (2012) examines the issue of drug use by athletes and intervention programs effectiveness. Bahrke (2012) clearly delineates the difficulties faced by doping athletes, the athletic organization, and the public. Sports organization depend on the athlete's performance and positive public perception to flourish. Therefore, it is not in the athlete best interest to admit or seek help with drug addiction because of most organizations’ policies regarding doping, most are in line with the WADA banning

Performance enhancing drugs unfairly lessen the historic accomplishments of clean athletes (“Moral and Ethical Issues” 2009) http://sportsanddrugs.procon.org/view.subissues.php?issueID=000410

The purpose of this study is to examine different variables that affect athletes who abuse steroids. This study strives to answer the question “How does doping in sports affect all athletes (High school & Professional) physically?” The goal is to look at trends and patterns in recent history of all sport associations and high school athletes and determine whether or not the trend in growing.

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

Performance drugs have cast a shadow on many an esteemed athlete’s career. These drugs, a rotten fruit of progress, have been leaving their mark on athletic history since at least the 1960’s, when many acknowledged it as a problem. Performance drugs not only completely ruin the spirit of fair competition by giving athletes with the money to access them an easy way up, but they also can have serious health effects, and aren’t regulated as steroids, meaning they can have adverse side effects when taken in an unintended manner. Not only that, but failing a steroid test irreparably damages an athlete’s career, and often leads to them being stripped of all their medals, even if some of those were won without steroids. In 1981, after American discus

PED’s in high school, college, and professional sports have been a problem since the 1960’s. There are many types of performance enhancing drugs like: stimulants, supplements, human growth hormones, and anabolic steroids. These PED’s are taken to improve strength, train for longer periods of time, and improve endurance. “Doping” is a word used to show that athletes are using illegal substances to improve their skill level. The World Anti-Doping Agency was created to bring awareness about the issue of doping into the sports arena.

It is hard to decide who truly deserves to be in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame because it is hard to pick out those who used steroids and other performance enhancing drugs from those who did not. Many would like to say that athletes in all sports always keep it clean and play fair, but this is rare these days. Doping in sports has always been a problem. However, it seems that the number of athletes who dope has increased dramatically over the years, doping sacrifices many values and cheats the game, and extreme punishments should be set in place to decrease the amount of doping in sports.

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

Many people believe that drug use in professional athletics is not a serious problem, however it is more widespread and serious than people think. In professional athletics the use of drugs is looked upon as somewhat of a serious problem, but is also very discrete and low key. Every once in a while one might see a prominent figure in a certain sport being reprimanded for the use of some outlawed drug, however this is just one of the many who happened to get caught. Athletes today seem to find no moral problem with using performance-enhancing drugs, or in other words cheating. Also many of them feel that because they are "stars" there should be no repercussions for their illegal activity.

Drugs are used in our world on a day to day basis for many reasons. Whether that be based in several motivations or just one, drugs have been the caveat of the everyday man to cope with life’s stressors. However, elite athletes or people who have a solid drive to want to use drugs in a certain way can have many reservations as to why they would choose to use drugs. It has been hot debate in recent years in the world of sports, what exactly constitutes illegal drug use. In the world of sports, doping is the illegal consumption of substances to improve performances. According to the UK Anti-Doping Agency, substances and methods are banned when they meet at least two of the three following criteria: they enhance performance, pose a threat the

Doping is an age old phenomenon in sports. And, the unpleasant truth is that as long as sports exist, doping will also be there. In recent times, the doping menace has grown as a monster engulfing all categories of athletes in competitive sports, starting form schools to international games including Olympic champions.

The start of sports doping has started with ancient gladiators to the 2017 winter Olympics. There is always the debate over which is correct. “Human nature is to find the quickest and fastest way to a solution, and in sports and competition, that solution is winning.” according to weebly.com page (1). However, a debate is just two different opinions. Some people believe it is beneficial for athletes others say it's dangerous for the health. This can be hard to choose which way to go but it is not about sides. It’s two different opinions at two different points that have one thing in common. Just like sports doping has the pros of maintaining health through the season or the choice of an athlete to improve their skills and themselves. Cons can include the health in future to the morals. However, they both have the one thing that the athletes strive and use always is their health. It is always good to look at the start of all problems and learn the information of the subject. The subject is athletes with sports doping with all sides of an open opinion to the pros and con. And, always recognize the common ground with anything.