Essays Tagged: "International Olympic Committee"

Ethical issues with drug use in the sports world

an catch all those athletes that use performance enhancing drugs. This he concludes, means that the International Olympic Committee should get rid of all testing. This is an option, however, it is not ...

(12 pages) 321 0 3.9 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Effects of Creatin.

d stronger faster, which is the basis of the strength-training regimen of some athletes. The IOC or International Olympic Committee has not banned creatine, and actually considers it a food, since it ...

(6 pages) 71 0 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Essay on the reasons the Buenos Aires, Argentina is a qualified candidate to hold the Olympic Games.

f places to stay. The city has been building many hotels in the last couple of years ever since the International Olympic Committee expressed concerns over the ability of the existing hotels to hold t ... hat the GDP grew by .8% in 2000, which is not a significant amount, but it is growth. Recently, the International Monetary Fund has loaned money to Argentina based on the government's new plans for th ...

(6 pages) 67 0 4.2 Jan/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Anabolic Steroid Use in the Olympics.

oids. This incident sparked worldwide attention to the extent of anabolic steroid use. To date, the International Olympic Committee has barred the use of seventeen anabolic steroids. Other organizatio ... r organizations, including The National Football League, National Collegiate Athletic Association's International Amateur Athletic Federation, and the International Federation of Body Builders have fo ...

(8 pages) 94 0 3.7 Aug/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Illegal Steroids

League Baseball and National League Hockey. But andro is banned in other sports organizations. The International Olympic Committee, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, ...

(2 pages) 39 1 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Ephdrine Weight Loss Supplement: Proven to be Safe

lement: Proven to be SafeAfter being linked to over 100 deaths, the National Football League (NFL), International Olympic Committee (IOC), National College Athletic Association (NCAA) and other sport ...

(7 pages) 45 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Biotechnology - Anabolic Steroids

ot just olympic athletes but also professional sport players and high school atheletes. In 1975 the International Olympic Committee finally banned the use of steroids in olympic competiton.Black marke ...

(6 pages) 105 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology

Olympic Rant

ere the competition and love of the athlete's chosen sport was the focus. It was then that the IOC (International Olympic Committee) decided to allow professional athletes to participate in the games ... nestly believe the range of games has gotten way out of hand and should be scaled back to represent international sports and lose the fluff events like curling (no offense to our friends to the north. ...

(2 pages) 145 8 3.1 Aug/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Olympic histroy

Baron Pierrede Courbetin.2) How is Presently organized and administered.The Olympics if run by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Organizing Committees of the Olympic Games (OCOGs), the Natio ... Organizing Committees of the Olympic Games (OCOGs), the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and the International Federations.3) What is the philosophy and aims of the Olympic movement?The aims of the ...

(2 pages) 30 0 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Information Portfolio- Secondary information collected and gathered for analysis (good or bad) to identify the concepts of sports marketing.

Sports marketing is a multi billion-dollar industry in international terms and is an extremely profitable exercise for organisations and sporting divisions ... tes themselves and competition management.Rights holders involve sporting entities such as the IOC (International Olympic Committee), AFL (Australian Football League) and the NBA (National Basketball ... rld's largest experiential marketing campaign as the Athens Organising Committee has made the relay international for the first time. This will not only generate huge exposure and hype for the games, ...

(9 pages) 111 0 3.7 Sep/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Athletes and Steroids

letic organizations have banned steroids for use by their athletes. These organizations include the International Olympic Committee, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and the National F ...

(2 pages) 32 1 3.7 May/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Doping: "Dark side of the sports"

ntroduced by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Who is the WADA and what's the Code about? Wada is an international independent anti-doping organization created by International Olympic Committee, whose ... k we can find an article in the newspaper about a new doping scandal. There is the time to stop it. International Olympic Committee and Wada created a plan how to make the sports and its races clean f ...

(4 pages) 30 0 3.0 May/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Hooty Hoo

re forced to take chromosome tests because they had developed strong male features (Mishra 2). "The International Olympics Committee banned the use of steroids in 1974, after testing for their presenc ...

(6 pages) 23 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Nutritional Supplements

edrine is considered a banned substance by many sports governing bodies, including the NCAA and the International Olympic Committee" (140). The article gives a very technical and biological summary of ...

(1 pages) 1056 0 5.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

THE MEETING OF THE CONTINENTS

her Turkey is ready to host Olympic games has been widely debated in our community and of course in International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently. It is an important issue because it reveals the part ...

(2 pages) 1134 0 0.0 Jan/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Corruption

ed. For the purpose of this essay, three institutions will be analyzed; Bre X Minerals Limited, the International Olympic Committee and Enron. All three of these corrupt institutions present a great t ... in an attempt to assure that Salt Lake City receive the winter games; the organizers paid the IOC (International Olympic Committee) members $1 million to bring the spectacle for the American city. Or ...

(12 pages) 123 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

The Many Issue That Involve Anabolic Steroids

son destroyed Carl Lewis and the world record, posting a time of 9.75 seconds. Three days later the International Olympic Committee stripped Johnson of his gold medal and the world record, when traces ... ents, a gold medal, and the new world record, Ben Johnson went home with a two year suspension from international competition and a life-time ban from the Canadian national team all because he chose t ...

(8 pages) 25 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Functionalist Issues in Sport

catalyst to national mobility, and as something that showcases British spirit and excellence on an international scale. Juvenal?s (circa, 55 AD ? 127 AD, cited www.ancienthistory.com) concept of ?a h ... o fully realise sports potential for social and national mobility. In 1896, De Coubertin set up the International Olympic Committee and reintroduced the Olympic games in Athens, and with it their ideo ...

(8 pages) 47 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs In Sports

rength-building effect three to five times higher than testosterone. In the 1960 Olympic games, the International Olympic Committee, for the first time, detected a case of steroid use-a Russian cyclis ... of the competition and the desire to improve physical appearance. We must create both national and international task forces aimed at educating the youth of the world and this country about the use s ...

(5 pages) 39 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

The 2008 Olympic Games bring China more benefit or not?

inion is too unilateral to prove the argument. Before Beijing Olympic Games, President Rogge of the International Olympic Committee said:” Beijing Olympic Games has given us a key to well know th ...

(2 pages) 14 0 1.0 Oct/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues