Drugs in Sport (Doping)

Whether Jamaica's Usain Bolt is taking performance enhancing drugs or not he is never going to test positive. If he did the sport would be finished. All the antics and ludicrous World records are ironically his insurance policy, the guy to big to fall now, and let's face it who wants him to be caught? He's amazing to watch and very exciting. There's no organised drug testing on the island and Jamaica has been repeatedly asked to set up a stronger system. Yes there's lots of natural talent and testosterone there but this doesn't feel right. Statistically it's almost impossible to produce so many quick runners unless you go down the taboo genetic road. Shame they cant ...  Read the complete review

Dope in SPORT *Usain Bolt - The current World Record Holder 100 metres* Men's 100m result - World Championships 2009 1 Usain Bolt JAM 9.58 (WR) 2 Tyson Gay USA 9.71 (NR) 3 Asafa Powell JAM 9.84 (SB) ------ ----- - USAin Bolt? Over the last month we've been overly spoon-fed what the Doctor's involvement was to do with Michael Jackson's departure. This ultimately beams the magnitude of how the West has depended on drugs. Drug taking; whether prescribed or otherwise, is available for the rich and famous, and most definitely to the super-human whose sport makes it their livelihood to give their very best while ...  Read the complete review

It seems to me that prohibiting the use of drugs in sport, and especially in professional sports where there are increasingly large sums of money at stake, is unrealistic. Athletes are always going to try to get whatever advantage they can over the competition, and with lines over what is legal, and what isn't, being increasingly blurred by jumbled regulation and a rapidly advancing "supplement" industry, the notion of a "clean" sport is a joke. For years the testers have tried to catch the "cheats", but they are always at least two steps ahead - and its not a new thing. German athletes in the 1936 Olympics were given ...  Read the complete review

Doping in Sports The first big name that struck home for me in sports doping has to be sprinter Ben Johnson of Canada in the 1988 Seoul Olympics. The 100metre dash is probably the most exciting of the track and field events in the Olympics and everybody was looking forward to Johnson's showdown with America's Carl Lewis. Ben Johnson did win in record time in the finals but days later a drug test on him came out positive. He went home in disgrace and the history books have Carl Lewis as the 100m winner. Rumours had been flying in the Olympic village though that just taking a look at Ben Johnson at the time you could tell that he was on something. ...  Read the complete review

Working within the supplements industry, I have my own view on Doping. Doping being sportsmen/competitors taking illegal substances that are banned within their particular sport. As with all competitive sports supplements are required to ensure competitors can maintain a healthy lifestyle and to compete to the requirements that are expected of them, however some feel the need that in order to win, they need to take it one step further and use the like of anabolic steroids, knowing full well that their is a high chance that they will undertake a doping test after they have competed. Its obvious that everyone wants to be good at what they do best, but ...  Read the complete review