Drug use in the Olympic Games
A female German skier sent home for doping
Evi Sachenbacher Stehle
Evi is a german skier and biathlete. She is 33. She has competed in the Olympics three times. She has 2 gold medals and 3 silvers for a total of 5 Olympic medals.
What type of performance enhancing drug did Evi use?
The name of the P.E.D. that Evi used was kept confedential. Though she denied using the drug officials can clarifiy that she used the unnamed drug.
Concequences
Evi was disqualified from her remaining compitions and her scores were disqualified from the comptiotions she had already taken place in.
Types of P.E.D.'s used in sports
- stimulants
caffine, amphetamine and methamphetamine
-painkillers
ibuprofen, narcotics
-sedatives
anxiolytics, ethonal, cannabis, propranolol
-diuretics
-blood boosters
EPO
-masking drugs
epitestosterone
History on P.E.D.'s
Performance enhancing drugs ( P.E.D. ) are used for many reasons. Some reasons are physical ( to kill pain or to in crease red blood cells and even to steady a shaking hand. ) and sometimes the reasons are mental ( to calm nerves or to give a confidence burst ( a physical burst usually joins ) . There are many reasons for a person to take them: personal gain, peer pressure, greed , doubt and even fright. Many people know its wrong but that does not matter to the people who basically trade their life for a better chance in a competition.
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