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    Drugs In Sports In sports, many of the Olympic winners have been found in taking drugs to gain advantage from other participants with would help them to perform better in their competition. Drugs come in different form, e.g. pills, injection or powder. The participants who take drugs only think that the drugs will only give them positive results, but they don’t think what are the after results and what happened if they got caught. Some athletes don’t even know that they are taking drugs because

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    Drug Testing In Sports

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    Drug Testing “People take steroids because they BELIEVE they have no other way. Steroids are about comparing yourself to other people but if you just become the best YOU, you will find out that you will never need them”- Howard Berman. Drug testing is necessary for the survival of sports. Professional athletes earn great amounts of money and with it comes major responsibilities. All of them represent their country, their state, their city, their school, their family, their team, their friends and

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    Sport Enhancement Drugs

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    Steroids in Sports: Exploratory Essay The sports world has changed drastically over the past 10 years. The use of steroids has risen within that amount of time and it has changed the view of sports and the game itself. As a fan of all sports, it interests me why athletes feel like it’s ok or acceptable to take drugs to enhance their performance on the field of play. Athletes are always looking for ways to improve their skills on and off the field. With the use of steroids, athletes everywhere,

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    Drugs In Sports Analysis

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    The article “drugs in sports: why the fuss?” was published in 2000 to inform public about why drug related controversies exaggerated in sports. Author Lan Ritchie explains that in every Olympic year sport is overwhelm with stories of banned substance use to enhance performance as drugs threaten both the health of athletes and the integrity of sport. In my point of view, athletes who use banned substance to enhance performance are cheaters because they ruin the values of sports. As Lan Ritchie explain

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    Drugs in sports, also known as doping, is very common around the world. The usage of drugs in sport goes way back, about all the way back to where the concept of sports was invented, during the 1960’s. Doping is a practice that has been going on since the time of "ancient Greek athletes, who supposedly ate herbs, sesame seeds, dried figs, and mushrooms for this purpose" (Hoberman, 1992, 104).In ancient times, when the fittest of a nation were selected as athletes or combatants, they were fed diets

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    Performance-enhancing drugs. “Performance-enhancing substances, also known as performance-enhancing drugs(PEDs), are substances that are used to improve any form of activity performance in humans. A well-known example involves doping in sports were banned physical performance–enhancing drugs are used by athletes and bodybuilders.” (Wikimedia foundation) If the PEDs are used in sports by athletes and bodybuilders alike. When did this all start? According to Larry D. Bowers they are as ancient as the sports in which

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    A dominant problem in sport today is the use of performance enhancing drugs (doping). The temptation of doping is high because athletes are constantly judged on their performance. However drug testing is costly; per person, a drug test costs around $700. New Zealand athletes are often missing out on dreams they have worked a lifetime to fulfill, because of world wide, performance enhancing drug use. Drug testing has an exorbitant cost. New Zealand’s expenditure alone in 2015/16 amounted to $2

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    Performance enhancing drug use has been a sizable problem in the past years and continues to be a problem today. Implementing stronger and more effective drug testing is needed to stabilize the fairness of sports and their respective organizations as well as helping sustain the health of the athletes. Others argue that drug testing athletes is unethical and against the players individual rights. However, drug testing is a proven method to medicate health problems for the athletes as well as proven

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    going to research if drugs should be legally used in sport by elite athletes. According to the book titled ‘Doping and Drugs in Sport volume 364’ “Drugs are usually called dope in sport which means it enhances your performance on a regular basis”. With my project I aim to research the reasons why drugs are used in sport, the side-effects and if they should be legalized. I will also be researching as to why do some athletes use drugs, a brief history of drugs, different types of drugs, reasons for using

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    Performance Enhancing Drugs Sport records are becoming harder  to break and seeing records are starting to become a thing of the past.. Players aren’t being able to hit these home runs or score long touchdown’s. Injured  players are getting kicked off the team or even quit because they can’t get to their peak performance that they were at before they got injured.  If more players were to use performance enhancing drugs they would be able to compete to the performance of past players. A performance

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