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ETHICS IN SPORT
Week 12
What you need to know…
Be able to analyse and evaluate ethical dilemmas in sport Performance enhancing drugs Gene therapy Painkillers IV fluids
Ethics
Ethics: the practice of making principled choices between right and wrong
Ethics in sport
Ethical Issues
Performance enhancing drugs and methods
Genetic doping, therapy and manipulation
Use of pain killing injections to enable athlete to continue performing
Use of science and technology
Ergogenic Aids
Ergogenic: performance enhancing Legal practices
Intravenous drips Local anaesthetic injections
Illegal practices Performance enhancing drugs Genetic therapy and manipulation
Intravenous Drips
Directly inserting fluids into a vein to speed up rehydration and recovery
Case study
Local Anaesthetic Injections
Otherwise known as painkillers Masks the effects of pain Case study
Performance Enhancing Drugs
Why may an athlete decide to take performance enhancing drugs?
Performance Enhancing Drugs
Common drugs in sport See attached table
Genetic Therapy & Manipulation
“Non-therapeutic use of cells, genes, genetic elements or the modification of gene expression, having the capacity to enhance athletic performance is prohibited” (WADA, 2005)
Ability to improve an athlete’s suitability to a sport as well as their training, recovery and performance
Activities
IV case study Painkillers case study Activity 7, p.383 Read ‘team dream genes’, p.386-387
CONGRATULATIONS!
You have just finished the 2008 Year 12 PE Course