The Olympic Games is a quadrennial sporting event, and as more and more countries and athletes join this great sporting event, doping has become another focus of attention, so what exactly is this doping?
What is doping?
Doping is actually a generic term for banned substances, i.e. any drug that improves sports performance and is harmful to the human body is a stimulant. No doping has been found that can only improve performance without harming the body.
History of doping
Back in the early days of the Olympics, certain athletes competing in the games drank a drink made from a mixture of alcohol and shisha to increase central nervous excitement in order to achieve good results, which was the most primitive form of doping.
By the mid-twentieth century, the types of drugs athletes took to improve their performance were changing, and in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, 100-meter flyer Johnson ran an amazing 9:79, but after the race, he was found to have taken the anabolic steroid Conlon, which enhances physical performance and grows muscles, and thus was eventually disqualified from the championship.
Why athletes should not consume doping
Doping by athletes is an act of deception. Because, the use of illegal drugs and methods will give the user an advantage in the competition, this illegal act is not in line with the sports ethics of honest and fair competition. Modern sports place the greatest emphasis on the principle of fair play.
Fair play means "clean play", proper methods and honorable conduct. Doping is both a violation of sports regulations and
It is also contrary to basic sportsmanship.
Doping makes sports unfair, and athletes are no longer on an equal footing.
The effects of different doping agents on sports
Different types of doping have different effects on the human organism.
For example: stimulants are useful for increasing the response and improving the sense of competition; anabolic agents increase the body's muscles and enhance physical performance; blockers increase the stability of movements; diuretics can reduce body weight and can also use their strong excretory capacity to mask other stimulants.
Dangers of stimulant use
The use of stimulants will be extremely harmful to human physiology and psychology, making the user heart failure, agitation and mania, adult female masculinity, premature baldness in men, prostatitis, prostate hypertrophy, diabetes, heart disease, etc., seriously damaging the physical and mental health of people.
