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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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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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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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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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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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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To begin with‚ Cashmore asserts that permitting the use of doping would make competitive sporting activities safer and help in the research process investigating the substances’ properties. In essence‚ he argues that by eliminating the use of unknown substances from the unchecked sources it would be easier to regulate sports as there would be no covert doping activities. He further adds that “permitting the use of doping would rescue sports from this clandestine state‚ creating an environment that
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Lance’s Roll in Blood Doping The controversy of Lance Armstrong doping has its analysts‚ supporters and critics. I agree that what he did was wrong and goes against the ethics of competition and degrades the integrity for those of us who hold the title of an athlete. This opinion coincides with the general thought of the public. But what I have found is that most people are ignorant and naive as to why the doping Lance did is degrading to cycle racing. The degrading of the sport and its proud and noble
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Research Focus: Sports & Fair Play Dilemma: Pragmatism versus idealism Understanding the current reality 1. What are the ideas of fair play in sports? a) What principles and/or value lie behind the ideals of fair play? ’Fair play’ is usually understood to mean using only tactics that are in accord with the spirit of the sport. In ethics‚ the concept of fairness involves treating everyone equally and impartially. It is complex notion that comprises and embodies a number of values
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