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Steroids may cause: baldness, acne, mood swings, and increase your chance of liver and cardiovascular disease.
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| Anti-Doping
One of the most complicated issues in sport surrounds doping. This hot topic has an impact on everything from high school, university and college athletics to elite and professional sport. Studies have indicated that boys as young as 11 contemplate steroid usage to change their appearance and become more athletic looking. Banned substances are not the only issue as it has been indicated that more than 65%-99% of elite athletes consume dietary supplements. Athletes need to be aware that not all dietary supplements are regulated and therefore some could test positive for banned substances as well.
Organizations such as the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) and Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine (CASEM) work hard to keep sport organizations, coaches, athletes, physicians, trainers and medical related staff up to date on anti-doping issues. While there are many people and organizations involved in the development and care of an athlete, ultimately the responsibility of an athlete lies in the athlete's own hands.
SIRC has collected the following information to help keep you informed on some of the issues that are being discussed in the anti-doping community to date.
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Athlete Support Personnel: Where Do We Stand as to Anti-Doping Liability?
The anti-doping liabilities of athlete support personnel under the World Anti-Doping Code are examined. Highlighted are the legal duties of coaches including raising the athlete's awareness of sporting values, ethics and rules compliance, providing the athlete with the appropriate information on the harmful effects of doping, and giving the athlete the skills required to make informed decisions. The article emphasizes the need for coaches in Canada to familiarize themselves with the application of the Canadian Anti-Doping Program (CADP).
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The Use of Herbal/Traditional Products Supplementation and Doping Tests in Elite Athletes.
An examination of the use of herbal and/or traditional products supplements and doping tests among elite athletes takes place in this study. The prevalence of oriental medicine usage is 53.5% (male) and 62.2% (female), and the reason for taking supplements was to improve recovery ability after exercise and training rather than to control conditioning. Relative gender-significant differences were observed in the subjects and doping consciousness. Tests of all the samples, according to the regulations of WADA anti-doping code, showed negative responses in 9 items and 210 substances. In conclusion, many herbal and/or traditional products were used as ergogenic aids despite a lack of evidence to support such claims.
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Making Sense of Fairness in Sports.
An overview of the sense of fairness in sports is provided citing gene doping, a performance-enhancing drugs and the array of manipulations that are widely banned in sports. It states that if the rules in sports are to ban the performance-enhancing drugs, then it is unfair to use those drugs to gain an advantage over athletes who refuse to cheat. It notes that new rules in sports keep its values alive and natural talents should enable the athletes to excel.
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Sporting Crime of the Century – 20 Years
The alleged sports doping plan, State Plan 14:25, created and developed by the former German Democratic Republic is profiled. One instance cited was the loss of U.S. swimmer Shirley Babashoff who won four silver medals behind GDR women swimmers during the 1976 Olympic Games. It was alleged that the GDR swimmers used performance-enhancing drugs during the Cold War era and that children involved in sports, particularly swimming, were administered anabolic steroids that were not even tested on animals.
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| SIRC at CASEM Conference
SIRC's mobile reference booth will be set up at the CASEM Sport Medicine Conference at the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland. Staff will be on site to talk to attendees and answer their questions. Feel free to ask them about anything from concussions to anti-doping.
July 13-16, 2011, St John's, Newfoundland. ... More Info » 
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| Ask A SIRC Librarian |
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SIRC members have access to SIRC librarians and we are pleased to share some of your questions. Dear SIRC Librarian:
What is currently known about weight "cutting" in elite wrestling: medical complications, unsafe practices, safest weigh-in protocols?
Thank you,
Mike
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