Performance Enhancing Drugs

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Performance Enhancing Drugs

• How They Affect Sports
• A Senior Exhibition
• By
• Jason Gilbert

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Brief of Presentation

• History of Drugs in Sport
• Designer Drugs
• Anti-Doping Associations
• Current Issues
• Future of Doping in Sports

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History of Drugs in Sport

• Mushrooms
• Animal Proteins
• Vikings ingest mushrooms
• 300BC - Olympians disqualified
• 1930s - Prominent use of drugs
• 1972 - IOC bans anabolic steroids

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Designer Drugs

• Steroids
• Produced artificial/natural male hormones
• Designer steroids
• Supplements mixed with male hormones
• Different supplements give different effects

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Anti-Doping Associations

• International Olympic Committee
• Founded in 1894
• By Pierre de Coubertin
• Founded to reinstate Olympic Games after 1500
  years
• World Anti-Doping Agency
• Founded November 10, 1999
• Established to increase the effort against doping
  in sports
• International Amateur Athletic Federation
• Founded in 1912
• By representatives from 17 nations
• Organizes major athletic competitions

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Todays Drugs Are Worse Than Ever Before

• Undetectable
• More Efficient
• Less Expensive
• More Accessible

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Doping Future

• Genetically enhanced athletes
• Stronger drugs
• Doping at younger ages

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Negative Affect Overall

• Dopers have a huge advantage
• Any athlete would do better on drugs
• Strong motivation
• Impossible to stop

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