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Sport & Doping Doping
When an athlete takes performance-enhancing drugs he/she breaks two traditionally agreed codes of behavior:
The athlete is cheating
&
The athlete’s health is at risk
Sport & Doping Sportsmanship
In English the words ‘sportsmanship’ or ‘sportsmanlike’ has positive connotations:
Sportsmanshipnoun \-ˌship\
: fair play, respect for opponents, and polite behavior by someone who is competing in a sport or other competition
Sport & Doping Sportsmanship
Baron de Coubertin, creator of the Modern Olympic Games, focused on the educational values of sport:
« L'important c'est de participer »
(Participation is more important than winning)
Do you think athletes should have limits as to what drugs, nutrients, aliments, vitamins they can take?
Sport & DopingTechnological
Doping
Under Armour and the defense contractor Lockheed Martin teamed up to create March
39, the fastest speedskating suit
Polyurethane swimsuits allowed mediocre swimmers to break
long-held world records
2009 Rome World Aquatics Championship
2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
Sport & DopingDoping in Cycling
Lance Armstrong has been the most successful cyclist of all time. He conquered 7 tour de France.
He made up for a mythical story. He survived a cancer, created his own foundation for cancer patients support and became the best cyclist ever.
Sport & DopingDoping in Cycling
He faced doping allegations all his career but always eluded the consequences. Cycling in the 1990s and 2000s was pervaded by a “culture of doping”.
In January 2013, after decades of denial, the long list of evidences against Armstrong made him come clean and confess to doping in an Oprah Winfrey interview.
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