Performance enhancing drugs
By: Ramandeep 7SB
German biathlete: Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle guilty of using meth, a stimulant in olympics
German biathlete Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle was found guilty of using Methamphetamine as a stimulant in 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi. So that she:
- Could play better
- Keep her job and fame
- Increase her energy levels to increase chances of winning gold.
- Getting caught and disqualified and not able to play at all
- Humiliation, and her career may stop due to everyone knowing.
Unpleasant side effects:
Drugs have just as many cons and pros. One of the cons is side effects, unpleasant side effects like:
- increase in body fat, mental problems, fatigue, sagged skin, rotten teeth, etc.
Types of PED's that athletes use and their street names:
- Cocaine: Coke, Snow, Blow, Nose candy, C, Crack, Rock, Crank, Cloud nine, Handball, Aunt Nora, Ball, Bernice, Charlie, Mojo, Dust, Flake, Paradise, Pony, Sneeze, Sniff, Toot, White, etc.
- Ecstasy: XTC, E, Adam, Snowball, Love drug, Beans, Hug, XE, X, Scooby snacks, Roll, Lover's speed, Love pill, Essence, Elephant, Eve, Hug drug, Cadillac, California sunrise, Clarity, etc.
- Methamphetamine: Meth, Speed, Ice, Crystal, Glass, Crank, Crystal meth, Chalk, Crystal, Fire, Speed, Tweak, Glass, Tick tick, Wash, Crink, Cinnamon, Crypto, Chicken feed, Brown, Beannies, Getgo, Methlies quik, Mexican crack, Pervitin, Redneck cocaine, Yaba etc.
- there are a lot of other drugs and street names for them, however these are the most common ones
- Human growth hormone
- Juicing
- Performance enhancing agents
- Roids
- Gym candy
- Pumper
- Stackers
- Balls
- Bulls
- Wight trainers
- Arnies
- Anabolics
- Anabolic Steroids
- Depressants
- Stimulants
- Hallucinogens
- Marijuana
ll winter Olympics doping cases:
This data show that:
- There have been more and more drug tests every time there has been an Olympics
- After 2002 the amount of drug tests drastically increased by 7 due to there being a drastic increase in the number of doping cases reported
- From 1992 to 1998 there was no change in the number of doping tests reported
- There is an Olympics held every 4 years
- Turin and Salt Lake City have had the most amount of doping cases reported
- Turin has had the most percent of doping cases reported
- Innsbruck has had the second most percent of doping cases reported
- Nagano, Lillehammer, and Albertville have had the least amount of doping cases and the least percent of doping cases reported
- Grenoble has had the least number of drug tests
- Vancouver has had the most amount of drug tests
- Vancouver has had less percent of doping tests reported than Turin
Snorting Cocaine
This can create holes in your nose and mouth as well, so trust me you don't want to see it!
Steroids
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Cocaine
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Things in history and about PED's:
- Punishment: lose to play at Olympics, arrested if illegal
- The IOC does doping tests to check if people are positive for stimulants in the Olympics. If they are they are asked to leave and are asked to give all the medals they got back
- People that want to get over them go to rehab.
- They are very bad because if you get caught, there lot's of consequential loses
- It can cost people lot's of money gone to waste for medical treatment due to them starting in the first place
- People are not in a good emotional and mental state.
- Lot's of long term and short term effects that can really effect you and your health both physically and mentally
- Sometimes it even costs peoples life!
10 Facts About The Drug Crystal Meth
Bibliography's:
- www.uk.eurosport.yahoo.com
- www.blog.thomsonreuters.com
- www.runnersworld.com
- www.mayoclinic.org
- www.well.blogs.nytimes.org
- www.news.bbc.co.uk
- www.wada-ama.org
- www.drugfreesport.com
- www.science.howstuffworks.com
- www.sportsanddrugs.procon.org
- www.iowanewsday.com
- www.youtube.com
- www.drugfreeworld.org
- RAID (Reduce Abuse in Drugs) booklet