Monday, March 3, 2014
ARR # 2 Period 2
View the BBC video on blood doping and then read the article on Lance Armstrong. In the space below, leave a comment. You should react to the article AS WELL AS your classmates' comments. Feel free to pose questions that will invigorate the conversation. To get you started, think about the following question: Do you feel that blood doping should be illegal? What are the ethical issues surrounding blood doping whether it be autologous or homologous?
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Blood doping should be illegal because it makes your body, better, faster stronger then most people bodies. If it was done naturally then there would be no problem with it, but Lance did it the wrong way, when his teammate initially said to the public he was using drugs, Lance embarrassed him, he ruined his entire career and no longer would have found a job, in the profession that he likes. In the article it says that it helps the body recover faster, and in a race like Lance, recovering faster is the whole thing, they start off fast, they push themselves, and around the middle of the race they use that time to recover, but if a person is already recovered before tip top athletes then that is when blood doping becomes an issue.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mel that blood doping should be illegal because it boosts the number of red blood cells in the bloodstream in order for athlete to be better at their sport. I think that if you want to be better at your sport then you should but the time and dedication into it in order to get better. Athletes should not be taking performance enhancing drugs in order to be better even though the body could recover faster. I agree with the Olympic committee for taking a way Lance's bronze medal because he was using performance enhancing drugs. He could have destroyed his body and little kids that look up to these athletes that take these drugs shows kids that it is okay to take drugs which is the reason why blood doping and other performance enhancing drugs should be illegal. There are so many risks that people take when they are taking these performance enhancing drugs and I think that the sport of cycling will use this tragedy to prevent it from happening again.
ReplyDeleteAthletes are going to great lengths to be able to enhance their abilities. This article and video made me realize how professional athletes have to choose between a healthy life or not. To think that someone is undergoing a blood transfusion without it being necessary is crazy. Why would someone want to go through a large amount of pain to have no good out comes. Performance enhancing drugs have more bad outcomes than good. The athletes that are using blood doping as performance enhancing drugs are taking spots from athletes that do not take performs enhancing drugs. That is unfair so I hope that one-day scientist can find a way to detect if athletes are using any type of blood doping.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Bridget about this topic. I think that it is unfair to athletes that don't use them. Athletes should work their hardest and try to be as strong as they can. They should not use other things to make themselves better. They should be judged the same as anyone else. These should not be legal
ReplyDeleteI also agree that that an athlete should not need to use performance enhancers or even blood doping. why would you want to chance losing every thing you worked for just to cheat. it is pointless to with go blood doping if you don't need it.
ReplyDeleteI do not think that professional athletes should use performance enhancing drugs because, as Lindsey said, it is unfair to clean athletes who worked harder. If a professional athlete gets hurt by doing this, then the team is out of a good player. However, it should not be completely illegal. It is a person's choice to use these drugs and they do not harm others, so non-professional athletes should be allowed to use them but it should be known that they use them.
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