PRESTIGE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH, INDORE

GROUP NO:71

TOPIC CODE:121

What is DOPING ?

The presence of a Prohibited substance or itsMetabolites or Markers in a Player's bodilyspeciemen Administration or attemptedadministration of a Prohibited Substance or methodto any player, or assisting, aiding or any other typeof complicity involving an anti-doping violationcimen.

What are Performing Enhancing Drugs?

Performance enhancing drugs that consist of avariety of substances, including

– Medications

– procedures

– devices

that are intended to improve athletic sportsperformances.

MOST USED PED’S

• Anabolic steroids: the effects of androgens includeaccelerated growth of muscle, bone, and red bloodcells, and enhanced neural conduction.

• Human Growth Hormone: HGH promotes andincreases the synthesis of new protein tissues, such asin muscle recovery or repair. This is the way newmuscle is built.

• Creatine: Increasing strength in people with musclediseases such as muscular dystrophy.

REASONS FOR DOPING

Performance enhancement – Upstream and

downstream drugs

Enhances the aerobic metabolism of the athlete –

increases stamina

Increase the protein synthesis of the body – e.g.

Weightlifters and bodybuilders

Pain-killers

WHAT DOES ANTI-DOPING LAW SAYS?

• Disqualification in event during which an anti-doping regulation violationoccurs

• Imposition of ineligibility for Prohibited methods and prohibited substances

• Depending on the nature of the violation, whether it was a first time offenceor not, etc.

• The term of disqualification can be one/two years, 4years, or life-timeineligibility

World Anti-Doping Agency Established in 1999

Released anti-doping code in 2003

Maintains Prohibited list of Substances

Accepted by 193 countries (including India)

under the UNESCO International Convention

against Doping in Sport

Slogan is: ”Play True”

National Anti-doping agency

Possesses the primary authority and responsibility to

adopt and implement Anti-Doping rules

Directs the collection of samples

The management of test results and

the conduct of hearings all at the national level.

Court of Arbitration for Sport

Based in Lausanne, Switzerland

The Supreme Court of Sports law in the world.

Administered by the International Council for Arbitration in Sport

Consists of an Ordinary Arbitration Division and an Appeals Arbitration Division

National Sports Development

Bill,2011

Bill's main objectives are to:

• Implement anti-doping measures

• Sets Up Indian Court of Arbitration in Sport

• Deal with Sexual Harassment and Age-fraud

• Gives legal recognition to National Sports

Federations

• Recognises NSFs and Sports Promotion Boards

as 'public authorities' under the RTI Act,2005

SIDE-EFFECTS OF PED’S

• Aching joints and risk of tendon injuries

• Blood-clotting problems

• High blood pressure

• Liver problems

• Mood swings

• Dehydration

• Heart problems

• Cholesterol

• Hypertension

• Stroke

WHY PLAYERS USE PED’S ?

Pressure is Placed on Athletes to Perform Better Today'sathlete faces an increasingly difficult choice:

• to use drugs to enhance performance or

• to accept what could amount to be a competitivehandicap that is to be in a competition with otherathletes who may certainly be using PEDs.

• They face a lot of pressure .

• They want to perform their best.

• Money

Duties of Athletes to prevent doping in sports

To keep themselves updated on the prohibited list of

substances.

To send samples of any medicines, dietary supplements, etc.,

to the laboratory for testing.

To keep the NADA updated on their whereabouts for random

checks.

To apply for Therapeutic Use Exemptions in unavoidable

circumstances.

EARLY DOCUMENTED USES

• In the 1860s, a group of swimmers in Amsterdam

were charged with taking drugs to speed up their

races. For the next 80 years or so, athletes who

wanted to cheat focused mostly on stimulants to

speed themselves up

DISQUALIFIED! SPORTSPERSONS

• The first athlete to be disqualified for drug use was Hans-

Gunnar from Sweden. He won a bronze medal but was

disqualified when a post-event drug test showed him positive

for cocaine and alcohol in his system.

• Ben Johnson tested

positive for

stanozolol and was

stripped of his gold

medal as well as his

previous 1987

World

Championship title.

The Spirit of Sport

• I believe that drugs shouldn’t be used in sports

and that any athlete caught using performance-

enhancing drugs should be banned from all

future sports events without being given

second chances.

ConclusionTo quote Heywood Broun, “Sports do not build

character. They reveal it.”

When we use Performing Enhancing Drugs we are

cheating our fellow athletes. Our sports need to return

to the real spirit of sport where all athletes compete

on a level playing field.