Blood Doping in Endurance Sports Blood doping has become a consistant part of sports and fair play. Blood doping enhances your performance by increasing red blood cell mass and as a result delivering more oxygen to muscle. This “boost” of energy has sparked major controversy in the sports world for what it can do for an athlete during endurance events such as running. The risks involve putting the cardiovascular system of the athlete being in severe danger because of this procedure. Still‚ there
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Blood Doping Introduction: The sporting culture has become highly competitive‚ causing athletes to turn to drugs or supplements to gain that edge over other athletes. Some athletes have even looked past drugs and supplements to pass the competition testing policies‚ turning to blood doping. Blood doping is the act of extracting blood from an athlete‚ then prior to competition re-injecting the blood back into the athlete’s body. This is a very dangerous procedure that is usually performed by a doctor
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Jack Page Per 2 10/24/12 Should Lance Armstrong be this harshly punished for doping during his career? No‚ the consequences brought upon Armstrong are completley inappropriate. The actions taken against him undergone by Travis Tygart and USADA are over the top. The fact that Lance doped is undeniable‚ he did it‚ but so did every other Tour de France contender and their teammates. Why should the man who won against other dopers have his life ruined? Why should a man who has helped millions
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Block 4 13 December 2014 Blood Doping Blood Doping is a very controversial topic throughout many high performance athletes all through the world. Blood Doping or erthrocythemia is boosting the number of red blood cells in your blood stream in order to enhance athletic performance. With an increase in red blood cells more oxygen is also produced thus enhancing athletes during a long distance‚ or long endurance event. There are three widely used types of blood doping which include blood transfusions
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Stripping Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles for doping was a harsh blow to athletics.Armstrong’s case was a milestone in the history of sports: it marked the time when society’s worst fears came true . For years‚ coaches and athletes alike have been finding ways to twist the latest scientific developments for their benefit. Performance-enhancing drugs‚ particularly those that can slip past drug detection tests‚ have become prevalent in the world of sports. While some argue that sports
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Edward Goldschmidt Comp. 1112 Prof. Flocco 2/12/2013 Blood Doping: Is it Rational and Ethical? You’re in the big race and your rival who you’ve been neck and neck with all year long somehow beats you by way more than usual. You ran one of the best races of your life and he somehow beat you and you don’t know how. Winning that race would have gotten a lot of opportunities from big colleges and instead of looking at you they’re looking instead‚ at your rival. How would you feel if you
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Health Risk "If each of us ought to be free to assume risks that we think are worth taking‚ shouldn’t athletes have the same freedom as anyone else? In particular‚ if athletes prefer the gains in performance allegedly provided by the use of steroids‚ along with the increased risk of harm to the alternative of less risk and worse performance‚ what gives anyone the right to interfere with their choice? After all‚ if we should not forbid smokers from risking their health by smoking‚ why should we prohibit
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Illegal Blood Doping a fluid tissue‚ and this means that blood cells are in suspension. The fluid in which they are suspended is called plasma. When blood tests are done‚ not only are they concerned with the number of blood cells present‚ but also with the amount of plasma in which they are suspended. The diagram below represents test tubes that contain blood samples from 5 athletes. One is a normal blood sample and 4 are from athletes after blood doping. Blood doping is the process of removing
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Do you think a professional athlete should be punished for cheating in an event that has already taken place? This is the case with professional cycler Lance Armstrong. He was found guilty of doping‚ or using an illegal performance enhancing drug‚ in the Tour de France‚ which is the biggest cycling race in all of professional cycling. He was rightly stripped of his titles and Olympic medals for the illegal uses of drugs such as EPO‚ Testosterone Enhancement‚ steroids‚ and other performance enhancing
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had about the doping network he was a part of to the United States Anti-Doping Agency‚ on top of this he also continuously refused to confess to his drug taking‚ and when he finally did he gave no evidence before a formal anti-drug agency. Though the question still lies ‘is Lance’s lifelong suspension from all competition fair?’ When you look at the statistics you will see that out of the 21 top-three finishers from 1999 to 2005 all with the exception of 1 were tainted by doping‚ is it really fair
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