Have you ever heard of the famous cyclist Lance Armstrong? He won many cycling events but he was stripped of some of his major victories. He was so good on his bike that he could practically communicate with it. But sadly he was stripped of his wins for a very serious offence to the Tour de France. After being in cycling for many years, in 1996 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. The cancer was very bad and was in his lungs and his brain, meaning there was a good chance he would not survive. He had to have multiple surgeries and go on chemotherapy. Three years after he was diagnosed he came back to win the Tour de France in 1999. He continued to win every year for seven years, from 1999-2005. He won the Tour de France two more times than any other cyclist in history. In 2005 he retired from cycling and made a …show more content…
He was stripped of his seven wins and was banned from all sports that follow the world Anti-Doping Agency code. USADA said Armstrong used banned substances, including the blood-boosters, steroids, and blood transfusions dating back to 1996. Armstrong passed more than 500 drug tests during his career. In some cases he was found to have used substances but it was found years after he retired when more accurate test were created. After years of denying and denying that he had taken any banned drugs and received oxygen-boosting blood transfusions, Armstrong came clean with Oprah in an interview, admitting to doping for years. "I view this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times," he said. "I know the truth. The truth isn't what was out there. The truth isn't what I said.” "I'm a flawed character, as I well know," Armstrong added. "All the fault and all the blame here falls on me." A lot of people have their own ideas about him being able to avoid everything that happened to
The first case of performance enhancing drugs in sports came before the discovery of anabolic steroids and is believed to be that of a British road bicycle racer named Arthur Linton. At the age of twenty four, he died during a race between Bordeaux and Paris in 1886. Controversy then soon arose when he was believed to have taken a stimulant called trimethyl at the time of his death.
John Jackson Riker was born on April 6th, 1858 in Newton, Long Island, New York, in what is now Elmhurst in the New York borough of Queens, New York. The Riker family ancestry extends back to the early Dutch settlers in New York, specifically of the old Van Rycken family of Amsterdam. Several members of the old Van Rycken family were successful in establishing Dutch independence alongside William I, Prince of Orange in the Dutch Revolt. The first American settler of the Rycken family was Abraham Rycken from Amsterdam to New Netherland in 1636. Later in 1654, Abraham would acquire a land in the Township of Newtown in present day Queens. On this land, the Riker family established the Riker Homestead and burial ground.
Lance Armstrong’s doping scandal is one example that truly illustrates the negative consequences of defying integrity. The lawsuit against the Former American cyclist was originally filled by a former teammate. The ethical issue of using money from the U.S. postal service to unfairly associate it with a sophisticated doping program is what led this former athlete from hero to zero. Denial and disagreements between him and his people arose until he finally decided to confess his unmoral actions. Despite the confession, he was stripped of his record seven tour de France titles, and was banned for life by the United States Anti-Doping Agency. To make things worse, his “Livestrong” foundation’s vision was irreversibly destroyed. He compromised his integrity, preaching visions that were contrary to his actions, and as a consequence, people lost trust and respect in him. He ignored justice and prudence for financial aspirations, which ultimately led to not only losing all what ...
...ackdate a prescription for corticosteroids for a saddle sore to explain a positive steroid test result” ( Sinnott). Because Armstrong’s desires to win at the Tour de France, he chose to take steroids to make himself more powerful than his competitors. This is similar to how some businesses cheat by creating monopolies in order to control all the money. Armstrong is like those corporations that make the choice to be more powerful but is morally unethical because it causes inequality of opportunity to others around them.
...his has resulted in many cyclists being banned from the sport most notably Lance Armstrong in 2012.
He soon felt like he had let everybody down, especially his family. He did not believe that his survival was possible, suicide too was an option for him at one point but the hope from his family made him carry further as his wife Dana Reeve stated,"I am only going to say this once: I will support whatever you want to do because this is your life, and your decision. But I want you to know that I'll be with you for the long haul, no matter what. You're still you. And I love you.” Reeve knew that recreating his life would be difficult but he proceeded to persevere to get his life back on track. Reeve had operations to reattach his skull and spine and only had a fifty-fifty chance of survival. Soon after his recovery Reeve found that insurance companies refuses to support essential equipment and care required for patients that suffer from the same injury, he protested this statement in Washington to help other patients to recover from spinal cord injuries. There were many obstacles especially since he had to adjust to the life of being paralyzed and not being able to breath on his own, but Reeve proved to the doctors that said it was impossible, that he could breathe without the help of a ventilator by unhooking it one day and breathing a few minutes at a time. Over time, Reeve believe that if he kept his body as physically strong as possible, the nervous system could be
Lance Armstrong, who was the winner of the Tour de France for an unsurpassable 7 straight times, was alleged for one of the most controversial doping scandals ever in the history of Sports. In January 2012, it was claimed by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, that Armstrong had doped and was also one of the highest ranking leaders of doping. As a result he was unstoppable at the Tour-winning...
Nelson Natividad, Citrus Valley High School football player who battled chronic myeloid leukemia, fought for his life not only once but twice. He fought leukemia at the start of his sophomore year, continuing onto his junior. At one point, doctors pronounced that he no longer had cancer cells in his body until he realized Nelson will be fighting another battle he already strived through. Despite his struggle,
While reading this article about Lance Armstrong, I thought to myself what would using performance enhancing drugs have to do with ethical decision making? As I read further into the story it all began to make since. Not only is ethnical decision making important for businesses but, it is just as important for individuals.
The 2016 Rio olympics game has been a hot topic around the world recently. On the swimmers’ end Ryan Lochte’s case is the biggest topic other than Michael Phelps taking 23 gold medals and breaking the record that lasted for 2000 years. Ryan Lochte claimed that he was robbed by armed men who identified themselves as police officers that a gas station is Rio de Janeiro on August 14th, 2016. Later, the Rio official addresses that the “robbery” never occurred, in contrast. Ryan Lochte and other these swimmers damaged public properties at the gas station which caused the security guards to present his gun. Due to the incidence, Ryan Lochte could be identified as a modern tragic hero since he fulfill the three characteristics of a tragic hero: high status, a tragic flaw ,and downfall.
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...orking hard like the rest of his competitors. His entire career was gone in an instant. Stripped of his titles and banned from ever professionally cycling again left him as only a man addicted to drugs.
Christopher Reeve overcame an adverse situation by having a persistent attitude and always trying to beat the odds. After having a horse-riding accident, Christopher Reeve was forced to be wheelchair bound and always having to breathe with a ventilator, and finally always having a nurse with him at all times. However, he was determined to be able to not have a nurse and be able to breathe on his own at hours at a time. Over time he was able to accomplish this by being persistent and overcoming adverse situations. He was considered an actor, a father, and even Superman, but Christopher Reeve was a Superman to all, and all it was to be.
Despite the hard work, stress, fatigue, and diminished time to spend with his family, I believe that Armstrong has a positive valence demonstrated by his new world record. Armstrong leads by example and he is passionate about what he does the best, cycling. Works Cited Endurance Training. Incredible Eating Machine. 29 Oct 2005.
Or even continuous attempts and repeated failure. Some might say even the penalty for a positive test in performance enhancing drugs as become too weak. Just last week professional American sprinter Tyson Gay has been suspended for just one year by the US anti doping agency. He was arguably the second fastest along side Yohan Blake ranking second or third after Usain Bolt. CONCLUSION