Steroids and sport

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

8 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

03/12/2009

Category :

Social studies

Sub category :

Sports

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Summary :

Introduction.
Understanding why an athlete would risk their health and reputation by taking performance enhancing drugs.
1. The motivation to be number one.
2. The case of Ben Johnson.
Advertising and the face of sport.
1. If a group of athletes were given a pill that guaranteed them an Olympic gold medal, would they take it?
2. Television and the globalization of sports: Turning athletes into a marketing phenomenon.
3. Major live sporting events.
4. The big contracts and the best player.
5. Idealizing those athletes that are commonly thought of as being steroid users.
6. Other negative effects on how widely performing enhancement drugs are used in sport.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

The idea of doping in sport is not a new one, in fact it is said to have roots as far back as 1876 when a highly regarded Professor of medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland took some athletes from his university into the mountains to introduce them to the South American coca leaves (the root source of cocaine) and explained to them the how this plant had properties that could enhance their athletic performance. These results were then published in an esteemed medical journal, and people began looking for other drugs that could be used as performance-enhancers. One hundred years later, the issue of doping in sport had grown to a level where cheating in sport was becoming rampant, and this led to the introduction of a highly scientific set of tests that was designed to identify those athletes that were using performance enhancing drugs, particularly steroids. It is an interesting course of study to look into how the idea of doping in sport and the response to it has changed over the past century and beyond.