Week 4: DOPING AND THE LAW Flashcards
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Define doping…
ingesting a drug/substance for the purpose of performance enhancement that is prohibited by sports organizations
What does WADA stand for
world anti doping agency
What is a drug?
a chemical substance when taking it, it alters the emotional, biological and psychological state
What does PED stand for
Performance enhanced drugs
3 forms of doping
- PED
- Blood Doping
- Gene Doping
what is blood doping
taking blood out and putting it back in to increase oxygen levels
what is gene doping
ingest different gender to enhance ability and perform better
why do athletes do PED?
- want to win
- perform better
- keep up with higher paid athletes
- after injury want to be regal self
Prevalence of doping in sport
- athletes not getting tested
- athletes don’t admit to it
- bad stigma
- cheating
What happen with the Waterloo Football team in (2011)
-Nathan Zettler: stole furniture from Canadian tire and when they arrested him police found a closet full of steroids and drugs -They tested the entire football team -9 players failed the test -8 failed and 1 refused to take test
what is the normal max of players to get drug tested a year
5
What does CCES stand for?
and what does it do?
Canadian centre of ethics and sports
-randomly tests athletes whenever
What does CBA stand for?
and what does it do?
Collective bargaining association
-come together to decided what should detested and was suspensions follow
What sport is playing under the CCES, WADA and CBA
Basketball because they both play for the Olympics and NBA
What is the difference punishment for doping in the CFL vs Olympics
CFL- gets a warning and isn’t public
Olympics- suspended for 4 years
What are TUE’s? and how do they help athletes?
Therapeutic use exemption
this is when an athlete is taking a banned drug but it is for medical use
-athletes must need a medical note in advance to make it okay
What are the disadvantages of TUE’s?
coaches will tell athletes to fake an illness to get a note
What is Micro Doping?
when an athlete takes a small amount of natural drugs so they don’t pass the normal levels and won’t be seen in the tests
-very hard to do
What is the Controlled drug substance act?
Campaign document to the criminal code of Canada
-different drugs and schedules relating to drug association with jail sentences
Is having weed in your system but not being in position of it illegal?
No you must get caught for position of drug
what is illegal?
- Not having a medical note
- Buying it and making it
- Importing and exporting out of country
- Vets distributing steroids
Are anabolic steroids illegal for having small quantities of it ?
No, must have a lot of the drug
EX: closet full: Nathan Zettler
R. v. Zettler (2013)
Name: R. v. Zettler
Year: 2013
What happened:
-Nathan stole furniture
from Canadian tire and when they arrested him police found a closet full of steroids and drugs
what happened in the court:
-criminally convicted for steroid trafficking
Sentence:
-6 months in prison
Outcome:
- -$3500 fine (the amount of steroids)
- theft $5000
R. v. Anthony Galea (2009/2011)
Name: R. v. Anthony Galea
Year: 2009/2011
What happened:
- Sport medicine doctor from Toronto
- Trafficking drugs to famous Us athletes
- Got arrested trying to crossing boarder because he was in position of hard drugs
what happened in the court:
- took a plea deal to name the list of athletes he was supplying to to have a less sentence
Sentence:
-20 years in jail
Outcome:
- took plea deal exposed tiger woods
- Penalty was 1 year probation: didn’t go to jail but was not allowed to enter US
