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Performance Enhancing Drug Male And Female
1,508 wordsAthletes today must make a choice: to use performance-enhancing drugs (steroids) or face a competition at a disadvantage. While some athletes may not bend to pressure to succeed a large number will. Dr Gabe Market did a survey of more than 100 runners asking them the following question: If you could take a pill that would guarantee you'd win an Olympic gold medal, but would kill you within the year, would you take it? The number of positive responses, over 50 percent, is very sobering. (Clark) N...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Anabolic Steroids
1,747 wordsMany athletes of all ages are turning towards performance enhancing drugs as a way of improving their performance by giving them that extra edge. This is not only wrong but its cheating and harmful to the athlete. Performance enhancing drugs have been around for hundreds of years. The Incas of the South America country Peru used the burned leaves of coca trees to give them great amounts of energy when faced with battles, hunts, ect. Even today they use coca leaves as a way of giving them the ene...
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Anabolic Steroids Drug Testing
1,841 words... Chill, euphoria, diarrhea, fatigue, fever, muscle cramps, headache, unexplained weight loss / gain , nausea and vomiting, vomiting blood, bone pains, depression, gallstone (Mishra, 4 - 5). Steroids effect on Adolescents: Steroids may stop the growth of the bones of the adolescents by closing the growth plates of the bones so kids will end up shorter than what they should have been (Anabolic steroids, 3). Psychological effects Moreover, steroids have psychological effects starting with aggres...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs In Sport
935 wordsPerformance Enhancing Drugs in Sport Introduction Performance enhancing drugs in sport is quite a delicate topic. Neither sportsmen nor their trainers like expatiate on this topic. Only when WADA creates a doping scandal, the problem of performance enhancing drug crops up again. However, sportsmen do not like speaking about their vices and scandals disappear as sweepingly and the alarm was raised. Use of performance enhancing drugs in sport shocks nobody. Moreover, numerous sociological polls an...
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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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Performance Enhancing Drugs Size And Strength
1,186 wordsMistakes People Make With Steroids Most people have the goal and dream to have the perfect body. They believe they will be more popular, or attractive if they achieve the body that they desire. But what lengths will people go to, to get the perfect body? One of the biggest problems in sports today, as many people know, is Steroids. Steroids can do wonders for your body, not only on the positive side, but the negative side as well. We all know they work, but are we willing to risk our health and ...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Mark Mcgwire
671 wordsFor many years people have wrestled with the issue of performance enhancing drugs. Even though many tests and studies have been done to show the affects of these drugs, athletes still choose to use them. A typical college athlete will spend many long hours working out and some of them believe that that is not enough and they make the choice to use drugs to help them get bigger and stronger. Eventually something will happen to each athlete who uses these drugs and they will learn that using these...
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