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How does doping help athletes?
In many cases, blood doping increases the amount of hemoglobin in the bloodstream. So increasing hemoglobin allows higher amounts of oxygen to reach and fuel an athlete’s muscles. This can improve stamina and performance, particularly in long-distance events, such as running and cycling.
What negative effects does blood doping have on athletes?
WADA explains that EPO thickens the blood, which “leads to an increased risk of several deadly diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, and cerebral or pulmonary embolism.” Athletes who misuse recombinant human EPO are also at risk of serious autoimmune diseases.
What are the side effects of doping?
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- Insomnia.
- Anxiety.
- Weight Loss.
- Dependence and addiction.
- Dehydration.
- Tremors.
- Increased heart rate and blood pressure.
- Increased risk of stroke, heart attack, and cardiac arrhythmia.
What are the benefits of doping in sports?
Depending on the sport practiced and the physical attributes it requires, the athletes will look for one or more of the following benefits of doping: recovering from an injury, increasing body recovery capacity after training, increasing muscle mass and strength, decreasing fat tissue, increasing endurance.
What are the results of doping?
disqualification of results at an event, including forfeiture of medals. a ban from all sport (competing, training or coaching) for up to four years or even life in repeat or the most serious cases. publication of your anti-doping rule violation.
What are the disadvantages of doping in sport?
Cheating and unfair advantage. The most obvious answer is that doping confers an unfair advantage. But the advantage is only unfairly gained because doping is banned: by contravening the rules the doping athlete gets an advantage that her more rule-abiding competitors don’t get.
Should doping be allowed in fair competition?
The rules of fair competition already use manipulative tactics. We draw a thin line between what is morally acceptable in sports and what is not. People think of doping as something that is unethical because it gives someone a potential “edge” in winning.
What is the moral significance of the rules of doping?
They have no intrinsic moral significance. The rule banning doping in any given sport could simply be one of these rules, no more morally weighty than the offside rule in football. Doping would then be cheating in just the same way as taking the subway for part of a marathon would be cheating.
Why is doping considered cheating?
The moral outrage points to a simpler reason for the wrongness of doping. Doping is cheating because it’s against the rules. But why is it against the rules? Because it’s cheating, of course! This argument moves in an embarrassingly small circle.