Doping in Sports, a Never-Ending Story ?
2018
Through doping, we understand the use by
athletes of substances prohibited by the anti-doping agencies in order to gain
a competitive advantage. Since sport plays an important role in physical and
mental education and in promoting international understanding and cooperation,
the widespread use of doping products and methods has consequences not only on
health of the athletes, but also upon the image of sport. Thus, doping in sports is
forbidden for both ethical and medical reasons.
Narcotics and
analgesics, anabolic steroids, hormones, selective androgen receptor modulators
are among the most frequently utilized substances.
Although antidoping controls are becoming more rigorous, doping and, very
importantly, masking doping methods are also advancing, and these are usually
one step ahead of doping detection techniques.
Depending on the sport practiced and the physical attributes it
requires, the athletes will look for one or more of the following benefits of
doping: recovering from an injury, increasing body recovery capacity after
training, increasing muscle mass and strength, decreasing
fat tissue, increasing endurance.
Finally, when we look once
again at a doping scandal, amazed at how much animosity against those caught
can exist; the question is: is it really such a disaster as presented by the
media or a silent truth under our eyes, but which many of us have refused to
accept?
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