Strategies to stop the illegal use of doping and drugs
WADA spends millions to detect cheaters. They produce frequent tests and hefty bans to try and reduce the chances of athletes risking facing these punishments
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Impact of Drugs on performers
physcholgical - stress - if sponsored athlete wont want to get caught as they're damaging brand an lose sponsor. also banned from competing.
Physiological - Drugs can help improve concentration, muscle mass, oxygen transportation efficiency, reduced HR e
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Impact on Sport - Drugs
Reputation of sport itself can be tarnished if associated with doping/ could result in no sponsorhsip and standard of sport decreases as they wont be able to compete in world events.
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Illegal drugs in sport -def - who and side effects
Anabolic steroids - help increase protein synthesis within skeletal muscles. Sports requiring power eg weighlifters may use it and a side effect of it could be liver damage or high blood pressure.
Epo - increases RBC and oxygen efficiency. Used by endura
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legal drugs in sport - def
Caffeine -Aims to improve mental focus and concentration levels
Creatine - Helps increase energy stores in body
Carb gels - used to provide the body energy, glucose broken creating energy
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Implications of Violence - Sport
The reputation of the sport itself can be harmed if violent behaviour is a regular occurence. May lead to less viewership and less youth partcipation.
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Card 2
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physcholgical - stress - if sponsored athlete wont want to get caught as they're damaging brand an lose sponsor. also banned from competing.
Physiological - Drugs can help improve concentration, muscle mass, oxygen transportation efficiency, reduced HR e
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Impact of Drugs on performers
Card 3
Front
Reputation of sport itself can be tarnished if associated with doping/ could result in no sponsorhsip and standard of sport decreases as they wont be able to compete in world events.
Back
Card 4
Front
Anabolic steroids - help increase protein synthesis within skeletal muscles. Sports requiring power eg weighlifters may use it and a side effect of it could be liver damage or high blood pressure.
Epo - increases RBC and oxygen efficiency. Used by endura
Back
Card 5
Front
Caffeine -Aims to improve mental focus and concentration levels
Creatine - Helps increase energy stores in body
Carb gels - used to provide the body energy, glucose broken creating energy
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