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Performance Enhancing Drugs International Olympic Committee
1,376 wordsThe 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, proved to be one of the most exciting Olympic games of all time. World records fell in everyday of the 14 -day event; in every sport ranging from shuttlecock to track and field, records fell like dominos. The most competitive sport in the 1988 Olympiad was the men's 100 -meter dash, with a field consisting of the ten fastest men in the world, at the time. World record holder Ben Johnson, who shattered the world record by thirteen hundreds of a second a mo...
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History Of Olympic Games
1,478 wordsThe Olympic games are the greatest sports event in the world. For many years, the Greeks used games for many reasons. The official ancient games were started in Greece. The first modern games in Athens, Greece, were held from April 6 through April 15 in the year of 1896. Since then, major world events plagued some of the Olympic games. There are a lot of examples of games being held in early Greece. There are also different stories on how they got started. One says that the guardians of Zeus hel...
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Performance Enhancement Drugs In Sports
1,530 wordsPerformance-Enhancement Drugs in Sports The essence of sporting activity has long ago lost its classical meaning. It ancient times, sport used to be thought of as just physical expression of peoples healthy mentality. The Olympic Games were originated in Greece in 776 BC. Back than, people were aware that it was necessary for the individual to have a harmony between his physical and mental health. However, in our time, sport ceased to be a sport, in traditional sense of this word, and turned int...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs International Olympic Committee
2,300 wordsThe Use of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in the Olympic Games Since the original Olympic Games in ancient Greece, athletes have struggled to find a way to gain the competitive edge. Early rituals included consuming wine and brandy before an event, eating potent mushrooms, and even concocting magic potions thought to give the athlete improved performance ability (Corelli 1). It is well known that modern Olympic athletes have been using performance-enhancing drugs for decades, and that some countrie...
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Salt Lake City Pierre De Coubertin
1,969 wordsAlmost 3000 years have passed when the Greeks first founded the Olympic games. On November 25 th, 1892, the sacred time has come for the revival of the Olympics. It was then that Baron Pierre de Coubertin, as we read from the Revival of the Olympics, declared for the first time his wish for the revival, at the Union des Sports Athletiques: Let us export our oarsmen, our runners, our fencers into other lands. That is the true Free Trade of the future; and the day it is introduced into Europe the ...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs International Olympic Committee
1,437 wordsSteroid Steroids May 11, 2000 Steroid Use Should Be Legalized The 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, proved to be one of the most exciting Olympic games of all time. World records fell in everyday of the 14 -day event; in every sport ranging from shuttlecock to track and field, records fell like dominos. The most competitive sport in the 1988 Olympiad was the mens 100 -meter dash, with a field consisting of the ten fastest men in the world, at the time. World record holder Ben Johnson, who sha...
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