Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Karen Hastings
Mrs. Barnes
English 112
14 November 2016
Annotated Bibliography
Kuzma, Cindy. "Are Olympic Athletes Legally Doping?" Caffeine, edited by Amy Francis,
Cindy Kuzma, independent fitness and health writer, explains how some athletes are
already legally using performance-enhancing chemicals in the article, Are Olympic Athletes
Legally Doping? Caffeine once was once an illegal substance if consumed in too high of
quantity for professional athletes, but since then they have lifted the restraint on caffeine. There
were multiple reasons that Kuzma provided in the article for this happening, but the most
important one was how difficult it was to track how much caffeine the athletes were consuming.
Kuzma displays many quotes and facts that are creditable in the article. Overall, to me its
fascinating how something as simple as coffee use to banded from the Olympics and this article
"Preface to 'Is Drug Use a Serious Problem in Professional Football?'." Professional Football,
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In the article, Is Drug Use a Serious Problem in Professional Football?, they provide many
different viewpoints about drugs in the NFL and the lifelong consequences of taking them. They
talk about how getting tested for drugs have gone up immensely, and by having bigger players,
providing harder tackles has resulted in more injuries and concussions. They also talk about how
the NFL arrest rate is just thirteen percent of the national average, which is not very high, but
since there's a headline in the newspaper for every NFL player to get arrested, it seems like a lot
more than there actually is. This article was a combination of multiple other sources and has
many facts that could be proven, but in addition to this, there are also many opinions. The facts
about the evolution of NFL players and how much they have grown over the past ten years is
Olympics Would Be Better If Athletes Were Allowed to Take Drugs," Wired, 7 Sept.
2012.
Ian Steadman, writer for Wired magazine explains why some performance-enhancing drugs
Olympics. Almost every professional athlete has taken some sort of performance-enhancing
drug, or has thought of doing it sometime in their athletic career. As of right now, most of these
substances are dangerous and provide serious health concerns. Steadman believes that if they
were to make these drugs legal, that scientist could figure out ways to make them less dangerous,
and it would reduce the amount of athletes cheating. Steadman provides many examples of
athletes using banned substances for evidence and explains how if the drugs were to be legalized,
that they could have a positive effect on the sport. This article is biased towards drugs being
legalized, which means there are some options and all the facts are directed towards the positive
effects of drugs. Steadmans point of view on this topic is not common which is why it very
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d5f0. Accessed 11 Jan. 2017. Originally published as "Performance Enhancing Drugs and
Chris Doorley, San Francisco writer and editor, explains how dangerous and life
Drugs are Dangerous. Throughout the years there has been numerous accounts of
athletes cheating by using performancing-enhancing drugs, but what most people dont
realize is how dangerous they really are. The three most popular PEDs
drugs can cause serious health concerns such as tumors, blood clots, heart attacks and
stroke. Although Doorley is not a certified doctor or expert, he does provides many
quotes, and facts from doctors, and other credible sources. In the article, Doorley goes
into depth about the three mostly used PEDs which will serve as great information.
how drug testing for PEDs doesnt always work in the article, How
the sports world, scientist are trying to discover new ways of tracking/testing if athletes
have been using performance enhancing drugs before they compete. Blood doping and
steroids are just a couple of the many types of drugs athletes are using all over the world
and getting away with it because it doesn't show up in their test. Ross explains numerous
ways that experts are trying to solve the problem of athletes cheating and he even
provides examples of how far the testing has come over the past 100 years. Although it is
getting better, its still not at the point that the scientists and experts would like. Ross has
many accomplishments that would prove him as a credible source, This article includes
lots of statistics and facts that help people understand how many athletes are cheating and