Drugs in sport Flashcards
What are social reasons for drugs in sport ?
- Win at all costs attitude
- Success = fame and fortune
- Pressure to win from coaches, family and media
- Lack of effective deterrents
- People don’t think that they will get caught
- Poor role models
What are the psychological reasons for drugs in sport ?
- Beta blockers are used to steady nerves
- Anabolic steroids are used to increase aggression and training capabilities
- Stimulant to increase confidence
What was Marion Jone’s involvement in drugs ?
- US track and field athlete
- Won 3 gold and 2 bronze at the Sydney olympics
- Was stripped of her medals
- Took EPO (makes more red blood cells)
- Increase aerobic capabilities
- Was sentenced to 6 months in jail
What are anabolic steroids ?
Artificially produced hormones
What are the reasons for using anabolic steroids ?
- help with storage of protein
- promote growth of tissues in muscles
- increases strength and power
- decreases fatigue
Which athletes use anabolic steroids ?
- power athletes
- e.g sprinters
What are the side effects of anabolic steroids ?
- liver damage
- heart and immune issues
- behaviour change (e.g aggression, paranoia)
What are Beta blockers ?
- decrease anxiety
- counteraction adrenaline (they prevent adrenaline binding to nerve receptors)
What are reasons why people use beta blockers ?
- improves accuracy by steadying nerves
- helps keep heart rate low
- widen arteries which increases blood flow so less muscle spasms happen
Which athletes use beta blockers ?
- High precision sports
- e.g archery and golf
What are the side effects of beta blockers ?
- tiredness
- low blood pressure
- slower heart rate
- worse aerobic capacity
What are EPO’s ?
- natural hormone
- produces by kidneys
- increase red blood cells
- artificially manufactured
- increase haemoglobin levels
What are the reasons EPO’s are used ?
- stimulates production of red blood c3ells
- increase in oxygen carrying capacity
- increase work performed
- increases endurance
- delays fatigue
- recover quicker
Which athletes use EPO’s ?
- endurance performers
- long distance runners
What are the side effects of EPO’s ?
- blood clotting
- stroke
- death
What are the negative implications of drug use on the sport ?
- Threatens spirit and integrity
- Damages a sports reputation
- Clouds real success of athletes
What are the positive and negative implications of drug use to the performer ?
- positively impacts a performer if not caught as it brining fame and money
- negative role models
- poor health
- social consequences
- loss of income
- legal actions
What is UKAD’s role in eliminating performance enhancing drugs ?
- UK anti-doping
- protects the UK from the threat of drug taking
- works with 40 sports
- Works mainly with coaches to increase knowledge about the dangers in drugs within sports
- Promotes the 100% me programme
- Works alongside WADA (world anti-doping agency)
What problems still exist with drugs in modern day sport ?
- Athletes training abroad (difficult to access)
- Development of new drugs/ masking agents
- Drugs can be ‘accidentally’ taken
- different countries have different regulations
