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    Confirmation 2: Before Fame Background Junior Championship 200m V. Confirmation 3: Hardest Workout Motivation Routine 2016 Olympics Medals/ Awards VI. Rebuttal/ Counterclaim: Better Athletes Win Loss Ratio VII. Conclusion Source, Summary and Quotes bio.com High School Records,World and National How he was Found 2. bio. com a. Win Loss Record b. 17 gold, 2 silvers 3. Broke 3 records in one olympic games ESSAY Track & Field since the beginning of time has been a

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    Certain Countries, such as China and East Germany have been guilty of abusing such practices. The glory of winning a gold medal and what follows is more important to them than anything else. It is one of the major influences behind drug use in sports. A major concern for new athletes representing their countries is not simply about the satisfaction of winning but the rewards

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    Kristi Yamaguchi, the “Jewel on Ice”, is one of the best women ice skaters in the world (Donohue 49). She was good enough to place top five in two World Championships (33), good enough to tour the country to perform (57), good enough to win two medals at nationals (30), good enough to make it to the winter Olympics (48), and good enough to overcome a disability to be who she is today (12). This disability is known as clubfoot, and with correction devices, it can be fixed (Healthwise). There are

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    the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) competitions, finally dominating the AAU competitions. Coachman, however, did not become popular until the Olympic Games of 1948, where she set a high jump record, winning her the gold medal and making her the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal and she became the first black woman to also earn an endorsement deal by the Coca Cola Company (“Alice Coachman,” 2016). She was even invited at the White House to meet the President and was celebrated with a motorcade

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    brakeman and was among the selected team in the 2006 Olympic team. In bobsleigh driving school, she won a silver medal, her first award in a bobsleighing competition.

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    A person once said "one thing leads to another, everything is connected." Everything is connected in some way such as Oklahoma and John Deere's steel plow. Those two are related because both of them have something to do with agriculture because the plow tills the land and Oklahoma is filled with cattle ranches and farms. Also Rulon Gardener a farm boy/ olympian grew up using things like the plow to work and till the land. Another example is that Dale Earnhardt jr. a NASCAR driver is an athlete along

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    pushing athletes past their natural ability. Those who can receive the best will receive the best results. For example, during the 2008 Olympics numerous swimmers wore Speedos LZR Racer swimwear. Swimmers wearing this swimwear received 90% of the medals. Since this swimwear has been released to athletes twenty-three world records have been broken. This shows how high tech swimwear is an example of a performance enhancer. This suggests that it is already not based on natural ability. Many people

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    Boys in the Boat Essay

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    Cited Brown, Daniel. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. New York: Penguin, 2014. Print. Crosby, Josh. “Me Time.” Rowing Magazine Apr. 2014: 61. Web. Zinn, Howard. “Self­Help in Hard Times.” In A People’s History of the United States, 377­406. New York : Harper Collins, 2003

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    In 1996, the US women's soccer team won the Olympic gold medal and, in the summer of 1999, they faced down the best international competition in the World Cup beating China in the World championship game to win the grueling, month-long tournament. The latter conquest generated an unseen excitement about Women's

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    P4 describe the effects of four contemporary issues on a selected sport M4 explain the effects of four contemporary issues on a selected sport D1 evaluate the effects of four contemporary issues on a selected sport CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN SPORT DRUGS IN SPORT Evaluate the effects of drugs in sport Look into the different drugs in sport? Why are they used? • • Performance enhancement? Recreation? Read the articles handed out in class; – Discuss, what is your belief on drugs in sport? Latest

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