history‚ organizational structure The Tour de France is an annual multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France‚ while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. The race was first organized in 1903 to increase paper sales for the magazine L’Auto; it is currently run by the Amaury Sport Organisation. The Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) is part of the French media group‚ EPA . It organises sporting events including the Tour de France‚ Vuelta a España and Paris–Nice professional
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Blood Doping Although “doping” is the illegal use of drugs by athletes to enhance performance as well as training or participating in a sporting event‚ most athletes are also relatively unlikely to ever undergo testing. The first drug to be used was heroin and morphine. Heron was mainly found in horse racing circles‚ while morphine was the thing to do which was so-called endurance in sports. Using drugs to cheat in sports is not new but is becoming more effective. Even if performance-enhancing drugs
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Adam Licht FYS Research paper Darft History of doping Texts going back in history suggest that men have always sought a way to work harder or at least to suffer less at what they were doing. It has even been argued that Adam and Eve were the first to take a substance (the forbidden fruit) to gain “god like power”. When the fittest of a nation were selected as athletes or combatants‚ they were fed diets and given treatments considered beneficial. Scandinavian mythology says Berserkers
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Doping and Consequence Final Draft ENC 3211-01 Tajuanda Parkes January 3‚ 2013 Abstract The intension of this report is to inform about the many substances that are used by athletes‚ professional and amateur. The discussion about why‚ they are used and who should be responsible for issuing them. I am looking to find insight into the massive aggression in using them and some of the physical effects of the substances. I will look at the glory‚ fame and prestige that come from winning and
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Dimitri Frixou English - Group discussion on Doping in sport. 22nd October 2013 Introduction - As we may all know doping can and has been a problem in some specific sports‚ cycling being the main scapegoat of course because of the Lance Armstrong scandal. However does that mean doping is not involved with any other sports. Absolutely not‚ what many people believe is that cycling is a dirty sport because so many drugs and supplements are involved‚ however they do not
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I would like to present a recent big case of doping. It’s about Lance Armstrong‚ who won the Tour de Frqnce seven times. But at the end of August of this years‚ something terrible happend to him‚ he was expunged for life from cycling… and also losed al his victories since 1998. The USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency) talk about "the most sophisticated‚ professionalized and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen". And recently‚ the 2th of November‚ the WADA accepts the evidences
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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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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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Dope or Quit "Doping means to make use of physiological substances in immoderate quantity or abnormal method from healthy people whose only aim is to obtain an artificial increase of the performance during the competition" (Vittozzi). Doping has been around for more than 100 years now‚ and has had many different forms such as using caffeine for a simple boost‚ to more serious things like anabolic steroids or blood doping. Blood doping is one of the many different ways athletes will increase their
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enhancing drugs in sport and what they mean to the social activity Savreet Saini 20389276 TA: William KIN 250 March 18th‚ 2013. Since the 1960s‚ following World War II‚ there has been an augmented use of illicit drugs by athletes (soc notes). Doping‚ commonly defined as the use of a drug or blood product to improve athletic performance‚ is one of the most controversial matters in modern sport (lawref). There are arguments for both the acceptance and ban on the use of performance enhancing drugs
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