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Doping has been the most controversial topic during sports; doping has created and destroyed many athletes careers. Notorious athletes such as Lance Armstrong, Jose Canseco, Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds and many more. These athletes used Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs), to improve themselves as players and...
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The sports industry is an incredibly harsh, fast paced and competitive industry that places immense pressure on all who are involved in it. An undesirable effect of this is that countless athletes are left reaching for results that they simply at said point cannot achieve;...
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Doping in sport is when athletes take performance enhancing drugs or food to give them an unjust, undeserved and distasteful advantage over the other competitors. Doping can be used to make you more alert, build muscle and give more energy. There are many different drugs...
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Recently, doping in sports has become a huge problem. Doping is being used in sports in order to cheat the system and gain an unfair advantage against other competitors. Various careers were ruined in multiple sports as well as trophies as significant as olympic medals...
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The Impact of Doping It has long been an argument in my family when it comes to the Olympics how far back you can really compare athletes. One side of my family believes that an Olympian anytime before the 1970’s is incomparable to now, because...
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Performance enhancing drugs and procedures are broadly used among sportsmen in order to win and show the best calisthenics. Athletes take doping and go through different medical treatments to increase their natural abilities. According to the dictionary, doping is “the use of a drug or...
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The name and person of Usain Bolt, needs no introduction, as since the year 2000 and below, the country Jamaica has been a regular manufacturer of amazing professional athletes, mostly flash like sprinters and Usain Bolt has to be or is definitely the icing on...
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With technology readily advancing, athletes are racing to get their hands on anything that may give them an edge to take out the competition. Gene doping is a resultant of gene therapy. However, instead of injecting DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) into a person’s body to restore...
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Do you think that cheating on a test in school is okay to do, as long as everyone else is doing it? That is how most athletes argue their case for why they dope. Doping in sports is basically using illegal drugs or illegal amounts...
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Many ex-athletes have admitted to Cannabis use which is a drug in violation of sports anti-doping policies. Darren Heitner of Forbes wrote an article on the use of Cannabis in professional sports and found that it has great benefits for pain and inflammation. In fact...