Week 4: DOPING AND THE LAW

Question 1

Define doping…

Answer 1

ingesting a drug/substance for the purpose of performance enhancement that is prohibited by sports organizations

Question 2

What does WADA stand for

Answer 2

world anti doping agency

Question 3

What is a drug?

Answer 3

a chemical substance when taking it, it alters the emotional, biological and psychological state

Question 4

What does PED stand for

Answer 4

Performance enhanced drugs

Question 5

3 forms of doping

Answer 5

1. PED
2. Blood Doping
3. Gene Doping

Question 6

what is blood doping

Answer 6

taking blood out and putting it back in to increase oxygen levels

Question 7

what is gene doping

Answer 7

ingest different gender to enhance ability and perform better

Question 8

why do athletes do PED?

Answer 8

• want to win
• perform better
• keep up with higher paid athletes
• after injury want to be regal self

Question 9

Prevalence of doping in sport

Answer 9

• athletes not getting tested
• athletes don’t admit to it
• bad stigma
• cheating

Question 10

What happen with the Waterloo Football team in (2011)

Answer 10

-Nathan Zettler: stole furniture  
from Canadian tire and when they arrested him police found a closet full of steroids and drugs
-They tested the entire football team 
-9 players failed the test
-8 failed and 1 refused to take test

Question 11

what is the normal max of players to get drug tested a year

Answer 11

5

Question 12

What does CCES stand for?

and what does it do?

Answer 12

Canadian centre of ethics and sports

-randomly tests athletes whenever

Question 13

What does CBA stand for?

and what does it do?

Answer 13

Collective bargaining association

-come together to decided what should detested and was suspensions follow

Question 14

What sport is playing under the CCES, WADA and CBA

Answer 14

Basketball because they both play for the Olympics and NBA

Question 15

What is the difference punishment for doping in the CFL vs Olympics

Answer 15

CFL- gets a warning and isn’t public

Olympics- suspended for 4 years

Question 16

What are TUE’s? and how do they help athletes?

Answer 16

Therapeutic use exemption

this is when an athlete is taking a banned drug but it is for medical use
-athletes must need a medical note in advance to make it okay

Question 17

What are the disadvantages of TUE’s?

Answer 17

coaches will tell athletes to fake an illness to get a note

Question 18

What is Micro Doping?

Answer 18

when an athlete takes a small amount of natural drugs so they don’t pass the normal levels and won’t be seen in the tests
-very hard to do

Question 19

What is the Controlled drug substance act?

Answer 19

Campaign document to the criminal code of Canada

-different drugs and schedules relating to drug association with jail sentences

Question 20

Is having weed in your system but not being in position of it illegal?

Answer 20

No you must get caught for position of drug

Question 21

what is illegal?

Answer 21

• Not having a medical note
• Buying it and making it
• Importing and exporting out of country
• Vets distributing steroids

Question 22

Are anabolic steroids illegal for having small quantities of it ?

Answer 22

No, must have a lot of the drug

EX: closet full: Nathan Zettler

Question 23

R. v. Zettler (2013)

Answer 23

Name: R. v. Zettler

Year: 2013

What happened:
-Nathan stole furniture
from Canadian tire and when they arrested him police found a closet full of steroids and drugs

what happened in the court:
-criminally convicted for steroid trafficking

Sentence:
-6 months in prison

Outcome:

• -$3500 fine (the amount of steroids)
• theft $5000

Question 24

R. v. Anthony Galea (2009/2011)

Answer 24

Name: R. v. Anthony Galea

Year: 2009/2011

What happened:

• Sport medicine doctor from Toronto
• Trafficking drugs to famous Us athletes
• Got arrested trying to crossing boarder because he was in position of hard drugs

what happened in the court:
- took a plea deal to name the list of athletes he was supplying to to have a less sentence

Sentence:
-20 years in jail

Outcome:

• took plea deal exposed tiger woods
• Penalty was 1 year probation: didn’t go to jail but was not allowed to enter US

Question 25

Modahl v. BAF (2001/2002)

Tested positive then appealed to test

Answer 25

Name: Modahl v. BAF

Year: 2001/2002

What happened:

• British middle distance runner vs British athletic federation
• Caught for elevated levels of testosterone
• suspended

what happened in the court:

• argued there was something in test that was wrong
• test samples sat in airport for 4 days
• when it was stored at high temp at testing centre and grew bacteria

Sentence:
-None

Outcome:

• got off suspension
• sued for a civil suit for being wrongfully convicted and a waste of her time

Question 26

Ohuruogu v. Athletics Limited (2006)

Tested positive then appealed to test

Answer 26

Name: Ohuruogu v. Athletics Limited

Year: 2006

What happened:

• Female British runner
• challenged privacy grounds (they violated her rights)
• she failed the “where about rule” 3 times

what happened in the court:

• she argued that its not fair cause she can say where she’s gonna be at all times
• shows that she’s been tested multiple times and has been clean

Sentence:
-none

Outcome:
-counted as a failed test

Question 27

What happen to Meca- Medina (2006)

Tested positive then appealed to test

Answer 27

• Spanish long distance swimmer
• David was suspended for 4 years for test positive for PED
• he argued that is suspension is cruel and harsh cause it conflicts with his “work”
• said it want against the EU competition law in place to protect capitalism to ensure he is safe at work
• did not win fight he felt like hw was fired from his job

Question 28

what is the where about rule?

Answer 28

you must be able to explain where are going to be at the time you’re going to be tested