Illegal use of drugs in Sports

Lifetime Ban on Drug CHeats?

Evidence

• The author,Ross Tucker writes about how professional athletes used drugs to help them be better,"This was an athlete who went to America, knowingly took a drug that was undetectable at the time, got caught, admitted he’d taken drugs, then went on to say that you can’t win anything without taking drugs. It doesn’t put us in a good light allowing a cheat, who has admitted he’s a cheat, to represent us."
• This helps us persued because a lot of kids are looking up to athletes and if they show the effects on doing drugs and the consequences of their decsions.

Reasoning One

• The athlete who is featured in the article says ," I regret doing drugs to help me because I lost more in the end then I could ever imagine"
• The athlete Dwain Chambers is telling us that he regrets doing drugs because even though they were supposed to help him, he lost more then he ever won in his career and now he doesn't have a career in running. The author puts this in the article to give the reader a sense of what will happen and how it can ruin your life like it did to him.

Reasoning two

• "I think a lot of us in the sport feel that a two-year ban is never enough for people committing that type of offence. And I would hope that as the next few months follow on, this isn’t really just about Dwain Chambers at all, it’s about the sport’s attitude towards those who’ve committed serious drugs offences."
• The Author wrote this because he wanted to show that drugs aren't as "helpful" as you think they are

Stylistic Element One

• "If they don’t pick him then UK Athletics would be bending their own rules. He should be allowed to run and he should be representing Great Britain because he’s the man for the job. He did serve his time and unless they are willing to change the rules and keep it ‘once and you’re out’, he should be able to run."
• The author used this quote because it goes against everything UK Athletics were saying about drug bans making them look bad as a assassation

Stylistic Element Two

• "You begin by attacking the personality and integrity of your accusers, you go after the credibility of the laboratory testing you, you cry out that people are out to get you and that you’re being discriminated against. Then you take your defence into the media and put all kinds of articles on Wikipedia to claim your innocence. You might even consider writing a book about it."
• The author uses this quote because they want you to feel for the athletes and the officals who have to decide what to do about the athletes

Why life ban for doping won't work

Evidence

• However, sporting bodies already know that life bans do not work, and in fact place them in a dangerous position. Doping is not as black and white as the general public, or most athletes, think. There are a number of reasons why.
• The author says this because its very hard to tell if the athlete using illegal drugs or not

Reasoning One

• "Proving intentional doping is notoriously difficult. The natural reaction of any athlete when confronted with an adverse analytical finding (AAF) is to deny doping. Gatlin's case illustrates this perfectly. His first AAF was back in 2001 for amphetamine, and an arbitration panel found that this was due to Adderall prescribed to treat ADHD. He was banned for two years."
• The author tell us this because hes trying to show us that there are other reasons and other things that could happen that we don't know about

Reasoning two

• In 2006, he tested positive for testosterone, but claimed that the AAF had been caused by sabotage due to a disagreement with his physical therapist, who had rubbed a new product on his legs. A four-year ban was imposed, double the standard two-year ban in place at the time.Only Gatlin knows if he intentionally doped. He denies doing so. No panel has ever found that he intentionally doped.
• The author is showing that us the only person who knows if he doped intentionally what Gatlin himself proving this theory about doping.

Stylistic Element one

• "This difficulty in proving intent was why the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) abandoned the ‘aggravating circumstances’ provision within the 2009 World Anti-Doping Code that allowed the standard two-year ban to be scaled up to four years."
• The authors words he uses in this is showing the anger from the family and friends of Gatlin.

Stylistic Element Two

• "In effect, the 2015 Code reversed the burden of proof from innocent until proven guilty. An athlete is now considered guilty unless they can prove that they are innocent. The same would presumably be true for any introduced life ban. This is dangerous to athletes."
• By saying this the author warns other athletes of the consequences of using preformance enhancing drugs.