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Performance Enhancing Drugs Anabolic Steroids
895 wordsIn the brutal cutthroat world of modern sports where athletes are in demand for excellence, athletes have been forced to find alternative means to improve their performance. Today, athletes often face a choice whether to use drugs to enhance their performance or to accept what could amount to a handicap. It is a choice that carries significant moral consideration, as currently, the use of performance enhancing drugs is banned from Olympic competition. Should athletes be allowed to make the choic...
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First African American Track And Field
1,395 wordsWomen throughout history have made extreme progress in expanding their rights and freedoms. They have also made it a point to prove that they are as equal as men through their careers, lives, and their athletic abilities. Women have come a long way in becoming well- rounded athletes, but the discrimination is still present. Although they have substantiated themselves in many ways, women are still viewed as inferior to men, especially as athletes. Women have always participated in extracurricular...
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Axis Powers West Point
808 wordsHis parents were George Patton and Ruth Wilson; he comes from a long line of military background. His father was the son of a civil war vet and his father was in many American wars before him. George Jr. had a lot of military blood running through him and it was just waiting to get out of him and be put in effect. He grew up on a farm in Pasadena. While on the farm he learned how to fish and hunt and how to become a survivalist. On the farm his father read to him what most normal kids would not ...
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Social Protest Revolutionary Party
977 wordsPresident Clinton recently visited Mexico. While there, he met with PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) president Ernesto Zedillo. The PRI is the political party in power. It has been in power for over 60 years and has never lost a presidential election. Is the PRI the true expression of the democratic will of the people of Mexico, or a totalitarian dictatorship? In 1968 Mexican students protested the PRI government and army. Over 300 students were murdered. On January 1 st 1994, a group of ...
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Ancient Olympics In Greek
1,071 wordsOne difference between the ancient and modern Olympic Games is that the ancient games were played within the context of a religious festival. One of the more intriguing true stories about ancient Greece and the Olympics of ancient Greece would have to be that during the Olympic Games, all fighting stopped. No matter how long or how fierce a battle had raged, every soldier in the battlefield put down his weapons and travelled to Olympia, there they would compete in athletic games designed to hono...
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Athlete Media Support
379 wordsThe life of an international athlete is hectic and can be very stressful. Just the training itself can be taxing on anyone. For instance; and athlete that is going to the Olympics, trains at least a couple years before, and returning Olympians train from the time they finish the last Olympics to the beginning of the next ones. International athletes put a tremendous amount of stress on themselves to always better their last results and beating everyone else is just a bonus, but I the end that co...
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Olympic Sport Martial Arts Judo
813 wordsJudo is different things to different people. Simply translated, Judo means the gentle way. To most people, thats all it means. To some, they know it simply as an Austin Powers lethal maneuver, but to many others around the world, it means so much more. It is a fun sport, an art, a discipline, a recreational or social activity, a fitness program, a means of self-defense or combat, and a way of life. Theres an ancient history behind Judo and many misunderstood beliefs about the art, some of which...
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Born In The United Hmong Families American
625 wordsCome on baby! All you need is to land that Triple axle and double loop perfectly and gold is all yours! What probably makes me most proud to be an American is when you are cheering for your nation in a sport especially in the Olympics. In this case I was cheering for this American who was competing in ice-skating in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. I mean heres a sport Ive never even watched or tried, but yet the excitement of rooting for your own country is probably the greatest rush...
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Horse Races Olympic Games
700 wordsIn 776 BC a foot race was run. The winner was the first Olympic hero ever. From that very first race to today, the Olympics have always been a way for nations to come together in friendly competition and international goodwill. The conditions of the first Olympics were not anything like they are today. The events were held in an open space in which a track had been paced off, areas for the javelin and discus had been laid out, etc. The spectators did not have stands to sit in; instead, they occu...
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Caused By Steroids Effects Of Steroids
1,426 wordsIt is amazing what athletes will do to achieve higher levels of performance and to sometimes get the extra edge on the competition. Most of the time people do not realize the long-term effects that result from the decisions they make early in life. This resembles the use of steroids in a person's life. Steroids became an option to athletes in the Olympics and other major sporting events during the 1950 's. But this use of steroids among athletes only became widely apparent when Canadian sprint r...
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The Salt Lake City Olympics Scandal
720 wordsThe Salt Lake City Olympics Scandal Every citys government wants to attract investments to the local economy. This is normal, because it leads to creation of more jobs and therefore, is vital to the efficient functioning of citys economy. Yet, with increasing globalization tendencies, city officials beginning to find themselves in precarious position, as their willingness to do more good for their people often balances on the edge of law. The example of Salt Lake City Olympic scandal is the most...
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First Badminton Club Competitive Badminton Sport
619 wordsMany Americans play baseball, basketball, soccer, or tennis. Many of them watch these sports on TV, and many buy tickets to their games and matches. But the average American has never even heard of competitive badminton, let alone gone to see a match. As a player myself, I can assure you that the common misconception that badminton is merely a backyard sport couldnt be farther from the truth. Badminton began as a leisurely backyard sport and evolved to competitive sport ranging to Olympic levels...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Urine Samples
688 wordsWith all the hype of payoffs to IOC members in the media today, it might sound as if that is the greatest threat to international sport. The real threat to the Olympics and international sport is the use of dangerous drugs which enhance the performance of professional and Olympic athletes around the world. Given the great number of athletes who use performance-enhancing drugs and evade detection, it might seem as if officials are turning a blind eye to the problem. Officials are in fact trying v...
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Women Played Baseball
1,050 wordsJ Johnson 11 - 14 - 01 KPE 3345 Female Pioneers in Sport: Softball For this Women of Diversity Group Project, my group chose to write about female pioneers in sport. Within that category I chose female pioneers of softball. During this paper I will discuss the history of the sport and female participation in the sport. I will also give some statistics and make comparisons between females and males involved in softball and baseball. Softball was developed as an indoor game in 1887 by George W. Ha...
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Gold Medal Los Angeles
836 wordsOlympic Olympic Legends Tristan Yapuncich Olympic Legends 9 / 21 / 00 Olympic Legends There are many important Olympic athletes. Three of the most amazing, however, are probably Jim Thorpe, Florence Griffith Joyner, and Mark Spitz. These legends were super athletes as well, as amazing people. Jim Thorpe was born on May 28, 1887 in a one-room cabin in Oklahoma. Although there is much confusion on Thorpe's date of birth, this is the date according to his estate. The career biography of Jim Thorpe ...
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Modern Day December 1998
324 wordsNike: Goddess of Victory Who was Nike? Nike, according to Greek mythology, was the winged goddess of victory. Nike was the daughter of Athena and the god of the River Styx. Nike sat beside Zeus in Olympus. She helped in the battle with the Titans, and helped Zeus achieve victory. The Titans, according to mythology, created the earth, and ruled it till they were overthrown by the Olympian gods. The statues and pictures of Nike show her with wings and a wreath for a crown. This wreath symbolizes t...
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Amount Of Money College Athletes
1,693 wordsIt is six o? clock in the afternoon in a big college town. A young college basketball player is walking down the sidewalk with his teammates and enters the local McDonalds for a burger. The young basketball player reaches into his pocket and pulls out a hand full of lint. He then proceeds to ask a buddy to borrow five bucks so he could get something to eat. As the group leaves the establishment they say goodbye to one another and disperse. The young man gets to the corner and waits for the light...
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Magazine Article Contemporary World
748 wordsThe material I have studied for the Issue of Sport has helped me understand more about living in our contemporary world. The film and the screenplay Strictly Ballroom along with newspaper articles and the television documentary on Sport made me understand why sport is important in our society. Sport involves many things such as competition, dirty tactics, personal achievement and sport officials. Firstly, whenever there is sport, there is competition. There is competition for all levels of sport...
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Role Models Alcohol Abuse
594 wordsARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY SPORTS PEOPLE DO NOT MAKE GOOD ROLE MODELS There is much evidence to support the argument that steroid use is widespread in the Olympics. Rugby League Footballers abuse alcohol, there is widespread corruption in cricket, racism in football, Rugby League and AFL and violence and fights among the players. Sports people generally make very bad role models. Athletes who use steroids are cheats. Steroids users are not the true athletes effort, ability or training. The athletes who...
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Back And Forth Part Of The Body
607 wordsVolleyball, perhaps one of the most widely known sports in the world, is, like many other sports, one that had very humble beginnings, but blossomed into a fad that swept across the United States and the world in the space of a few years. In Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895, a man named William G. Morgan (the P. E. director of the local YMCA) was looking to create a game for the businessmen that wouldn t require much physical contact. He blended elements of many sports and came up with a game that...
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