most famous doping cases: By Juan fELIPE plazas
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-What is doping?. It affects the sport in general?
Today sports are the best way to do exercise, there are many sports, for example, Football, Basketball and tennis, all over the world they are people who are dedicated to sport, tehy are profesional players, these people do sport all the time.
Now entering in the topic; some players use some doping products, these items can give more energy and force. This, in the modern wolrd is prohibited by the International Olympic Committe or "NOC" this organization is in charge of regulating doping in all competitive scenes, like the olympic games and other international and national tournaments of the world.
Now let's talk about the most famous cases of doping in the world of sport, one of the most controversial cases was the Ben Johnson, in the olympic games of 1988, he won the gold medal in the 100 meters test, but the NOC did the anti-doping exam to him and came out positive, their gold medal was withdrawn, and was suspended for two years, past the time, start again in the sport, but the NOC asked him to do the Anti-doping exam again in this case the exam gets positive again, so the NOC take actions and banned him grom entering into the competitive arena for the rest of his life, that was a big contrversy in that time.
Other famous case was the Lance Amstrong , when the first controversy was presented in 2004 , then in 2012 start again the problem, the final judgment, the test were positive, equal he admits that the use doping products, and their 7 titles of the Tour of France were withdrawn.
What is Doping?
The doping is a problematic presented since the beginning of sport, the player drink or eat medicines that help him to get a better performance in her sport, during years, the sports agencies it did not give much importance about this problematic, but in the olympic games of Mexico in 1988 the International Olympic Committe take action about this situation, and initiated doping controls on players, with this actions, all items that gave better capacities to players were banned.
But this does not prevent players from keep doping, with drinks and medicines, so here is a problematic that will be during the years until find one solution to this problem on the following years, using new tecnologies and investigations
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