performance enhancing drugs (PED’s) in elite cycling extends well beyond the 60’s. Evidence suggests that PED’s where used as far back as the Ancient Greeks. They used various methods of doping to gain the performance edge (Bowers 1998). People will always use and abuse substances in the pursuit to get the edge as well as personal appearance (Fernandez, Hosey). These days with equipment being technologically advanced and available to all professional teams athletes need to find a way to perform at
Over the past century many athletes have been suspended from sports, titles and medals taken away, and received penalties for having tested positive for one of the banned substances (Timothy Herman 6). A major story that came about in 2013 was Lance Armstrong admitting to the use to performance enhancing drugs. An interview which aired on January 17th 2013 with Oprah Winfrey was the first time Lance admitted to the use of performance enhancing drugs (6). Lance admitted to the use of the following
that’s not yet detectable by testing? This is a huge problem in sports today with all PED’s not being banned it limits the testing of unique or complicated PED’s which are created on a daily basis. That leads to believe that rules should be established to allow and monitor some Performance Enhancing Drugs so athletes will have the choice of utilizing the same benefits that some have been reaping the rewards from. So what are PED’s? They are hormones, amphetamines, steroids, stimulants or any other
Ethical and moral quandaries are present at all levels of organized sports (DeSensi, 2010). Athletic directors and sporting managers face many demands each day surrounding their job responsibilities; budgets, parents, coaches, student-athletes, office personal, facility management, public relations. Each of these areas and many more require a considerate, level minded, comprehensive ethical and moral response when a challenge arises to develop an equitable response and solution (DeSensi, 2010)
the concerns of athletes using drugs in sports. However, little discussion has led to prevention of this happening. Athletes today use such a variety of drugs that medical necessity and misuse have become one in the same which goes to say that using drugs in sports is cheating and will always be cheating. Something must happen to prevent this misuse as soon as possible. Instead, the world tends to “put on blinds” and continue to allow the misuse. Athletes need to understand
Central Idea: All performance enhancing drugs should be forever banned by every sport. I. Performance enhancing drugs, the man-made enigma throughout the world of sports, comes in mainly four types: Anabolic Steroids, Masking Agents, Stimulants, and Erythropoietin. A. Anabolic Steroids comes from the hormone in males called testosterone (Performance Enhancing Drugs Education). 1. Specifically, several baseball players utilize this “juice” to synthesize protein in their body, which
for the Detroit Red Wings. This is one of many examples of deviance in sports, and how a win-at-all costs mentality can drive athletes to act in extreme manners. As a result of the growing commercialization of sports, athletes are socialized at young ages to believe that winning is everything, and that stopping at nothing will help you succeed. Athletes will do almost anything to gain the upper hand in their respective sports, whether it is through engaging in excessive on-field violence or through
can be justified without considering the moral implications. Consequentialism is the moral theory that most people involved in sports tend to use, because they can always justify an action because it was done to try to win a game or get a competitive advantage. This was easier to do in the early years of sports, but in today’s world of the internet and 24 hours sports, it seems almost every move a coach, player, or owner makes is dissected and their morals and ethics are called into question. In
In 1935 German chemist Leopold Ruzicka synthesized the first human usable injectable version of testosterone which changed sports from that point forward. The two who synthesized the human usable hormone, Butenadt’s and Ruzicka received a nobel prize for their work testosterone. A few years later in the 40’s testosterone-propionate, a specific form of testosterone, was first used by the soviets to improve athletic performance. This led to the Soviets dominance in the olympics in the 60’s. From then
Around the world today, thousands of athletes compete in various sports and competitions at the supreme level. Synonymously with the hard work the players do outside of athletic contests comes the world-wide notorious dilemma of whether Performance Enhancing Drugs (also known as PED's) should or should not be involved in sports. The sports world classifies a PED as any type of substance that may benefit a person athletically or for any any other uses like endurance. Well, should performance enhancing