1- Doping in the sport.
Famous cases in the sport were the following sportspeople:
- Diego Armando Maradona: The argentinian football player tested positive for cocaine in 1991 and after a punishment of 15 months tested positive in 1994 again. In 1999 Maradona was sentenced to 2 years in jail for attacking to photographers with an air rifle. He is considered like the best footballer in the football's history. He won important sport achievements.
- Martina Hingings: The swiss tennis player admitted that she was accused of doing positive for cocaine in a doping control in the Wimbledon's tennis tournament and she announced the decision of retiring of the tennis. But she denied consuming this substance. She was number one in the world of the tennis.
- Floyd Landis: The last scandal in cycling was when the title of Tour of France was taked away of Landis in 2006 when he tested positive for doping.
The worst scandal of brazilian athletics was the last july when six sportspeople that took part of the national delegation that were in Germany to prepare the Championship of Berlin have to go back home after tested positive in the substance EPO.
The banned substances like EPO, steroids, growth hormone have benefits and side effects:
- EPO: It is suitable for the high blood pressure, tiredness, weakness in the musculature, anaemia. It has side effect because it stimulates the mother cells of the bone marrow and that produces an increase in red blood cell. This substance is associated with aerobic activities.
- Steroids: It is suitable in the serious malnutrition, cancer and the advanced in osteoporosis. It has side effects like liver's cancer, fall of hair, retention of fluids. Sports that are associated with this substance are athletics, cycling, judo, water polo, body building.
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