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Hello world!

Hi everyone! I started this blog because I am involved in the world of sports and I am really interested in this topic. I will write about doping and performance enhancement drug usage in professional sports because I think it is one of the most important topics nowadays. Track and field is my life and today I came to a conclusion that it is almost impossible to get good results without some kind of medical help. Which is funny because in the past sports were about competing with each other human to human, and now sports are all about how well equipped your medical team is with the latest drugs to enhance your performance. So now, the battle is between the medical companies and not the actual human. Human performance got PIMPED! In my opinion it is not right! OK you probably have to take vitamins and the legal dietary supplements that can help you but they are not going to do the work for you. I know even though athletes take drugs to perform better, the drugs alone are not going to improve them if they would sit around all day drinking beer and watching TV. I know they work just as hard as all other athletes, but they have an advantage - a jump-start - something that will get them through the tough practice. While the people who only take allowed supplements most likely would "die" from the same amount of work. That is the difference! You are not going to be an outstanding athlete just because you take drugs; they just help you along the way.

 I have been in the “industry” of athletics since I was 12. I started my professional career at that time, and I learned that no one cares if you are “clean” and have mediocre results or maybe a bit better. The only thing that counts is whether you are a champion, a record holder, or an Olympic champion even though everyone knows that you achieved those results by cheating. The world only cares if you get caught! Unless they can prove that you took something you are considered clean, even though everyone knows what you are doing. The world of doping is very controversial. One day you could be the king on the hill. The next day they test you and then find out you take illegal drugs, and you get banned! Which means you have to give back everything that you got and they will try to humiliate you in front of the public. First of all, I say that is OK because you cheated. But how come they( The WADA aka World Anti-Doping Agency- They test the athletes all the time) did not know about that earlier so the whole thing would not happen in the first place? Here is something that you should know about doping: you can’t take it before the competition and VOILA… bam you are the best in the world! It is a long process; you have to take illegal performance enhancement drugs for months (sometimes years) to reach the level of the champion. It does not happen over night! Also, athletes at that level get tested at least once or twice a month; so how come they they did not discover that the athlete was cheating - from those tests - and they only find it after the damage is done. Well, these are the issues I will try to explore and bring to your mind.

See what others do.

Hi everyone,

In this post I am going to talk about other people's work, and I try to look for others in my topic area to see what they say and how they approach this topic. One day when I was surfing on the web,  I come across this blog.  This blog belongs to Peter Giles is a former Olympic athlete, physicist and rational thinker from Canada. He has his blog called the Now THAT's Amateur and he is discussing most of the athletic related questions and all the fresh topics that are in the sports world nowadays.  He is very up to date with all his topics and he has a very formal writing style. He probably knows more about sports and rules than anyone in the business. I was amazed by his knowledge of all the small details about doping rules and the consequences of doping in athletics. He mentions the WADA code and he even links to their direct website which shows knowledge in this field of athletics.  

In each case I'll frame the athlete's case in terms of the WADA Code (PDF) and associated anti-doping rules.

I am inspired by his talent and effort that he puts into this blog to let other people know about the rules and consequences of doping. He knows what he is talking about and he is educating all those people who are in the world of sports. He frequently posts on his blog and always gives detailed description about the topic about which he is writing. I feel I will never be able to reach his level of knowledge! His two most interesting posts to me are the ones that talk about Marion Jones and the doping issue of Floyd Landis. These articles are a part of a three part blog series and all of them talk about the violations that the athletes committed and the punishment that they got for breaking the rules.

2. The urine tested was not Landis' specimen. When urine samples are collected, the vials containing the A and B samples are labeled with unique identifying numbers. Both vials are sealed, and then sealed together within another labeled container. The number on each sample ensures that the test results are properly assigned to the appropriate athlete, and are also supposed to ensure anonymity of the sample within the lab. The lab documentation would report the positive test by sample number only. 

I really like his deep awareness about all the small details of doping rules, and he goes deeply into the topic to describe to the reader what all these things are. He makes the reader understand the things that he is talking about.

Peter Giles is discusses all the official information about doping in athletics. I, on the other hand, will try to talk about the doping in a more informal way from a point of view of an athlete. I will try to visit his site more often to see what is new, to get some updates about the rules and the doping code and all the related issues that he will discuss in his blog.

Voices in my head!

The other day I came across a blog on line about gene doping and how it will replace steroids in the athletic world. As I was reading that post, I felt like the person was able to articulate his voice in his post much better than I ever will. I started to think that I would have to look up some other posts of his so I can see how he creates his voice. I feel like I don't have specific voice in my posts so I want to learn from others. So... Well I was reading this post: Will Genetic Juicing Replace Steroids?, and I started to think Maaan... This guy is smart! He had so many legible examples his post. For example he knows that what is the current status on the gene therapy in the medical world.

Currently, it is only legally used for medical reasons to make patients live longer. However, gene therapy is currently risky for several reasons: firstly, the gene may be rejected by patient.

 He seems really educated in this topic. He uses a very professional voice. I will try to make more casual voice in my posts because I am new in this. I looked up his other post where he is talking about the new treatment glioblastoma. He has a professional and mostly medical voice because it is a biology site for a class. He definitely knows what he is talking about so I looked up his profile. Of course he is smart! Of course he is educated in this field because he must be a biology teacher. I did not find out too much about him but I could figure it out. All of his other posts he does the same thing. I feel like he is educating the people about all the dietary and medical stuff they supposed to know, but obviously people don't know. I think he is doing a good job explaining- in his doping post - the effects of the gene doping. He uses a radical voice and cuts straight to the point that if someone does use this method of doping can seriously be hurt or even killed. I feel like that he is educating the students and the people who read his blog. He is doing a good job with the choice of words that he is using to make the reader think twice, before he or she does something like this, in order to improve their performance.

If the operation is done poorly enough, the immune system's response may be severe enough to kill the patient (i.e., shutting down organs, including the brain). Also, gene therapy does not last for a long period of time, so multiple operations are required until the therapy actually works and cures the patient.

He has a source on his blog where hi is getting all his ideas and inspirations to write this post. I think it is clever way to see where did you start your thinking and how did you developed the topic. I feel I should analyze his source, because the post is clever, scientific and I can get a lot of very important information about gene doping.

But back to the post that I choose!

He gives an example of a German coach who would have been willing to give this stuff to his athletes in order to improve their performance but thankfully he got caught before he could do so. I think it was a clever idea a to give a negative example that, what could happen if you do it so?

In 2006, a German track and field coach tried to allow genetic juicing to his athletes for the 2008 Olympics in China, but was caught before anyone could be treated. 

I think that it is important to give examples so the audience can imagine the consequences of these things. It makes the reader feel that he really knows what he is talking about.

This is the kind of writing I would like to present to you. But I would like to put some personal experience from my sport - which is Track and Field (discus) - so you can have little sense how it is like to be in a grinder of the doping world.