Performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) have been used by athletes for centuries to improve performance. Early documented uses included swimmers in the 1860s taking drugs to speed up races. The first athlete to be disqualified for PED use was Hans-Gunnar Nilsson in 1968 after testing positive for cocaine and alcohol. Common PEDs used by athletes include anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, and creatine. However, using PEDs can have serious negative health effects and athletes caught using them often face bans and loss of titles and medals. Governing bodies continue developing better detection methods through urine and blood tests to curb PED use in sports.

1. P.E.D
Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports
by: Andres Abundiz

2. What are Performing Enhancing
Drugs?
Performance enhancing drugs
consist of a variety of substances, including
– Medications
– procedures
– devices
that are intended to improve athletic sports
performances.

3. A frequent subject of
controversy in the sporting
world, the use of
performance -enhancing
drugs has shown a huge
and disturbing growth over
the past fifty years.

4. History of PED
The use of drugs to enhance performance in sports has
occurred at least since the time of the original Olympic
Games [from 776 to 393 BC].

5. The origin of the word
'doping' is attributed to
the Dutch word 'doop,'
which is an opium juice,
the drug of choice of
the ancient Greeks."

6. EARLY DOCUMENTED USES
In the 1860s, a group of swimmers in
Amsterdam were charged with taking drugs to
speed up their races. For the next 80 years or so,
athletes who wanted to cheat focused mostly on
stimulants to speed themselves up

7. DISQUALIFIED!
The first athlete to be
disqualified for drug use was
Hans-Gunnar from Sweden.
He won a bronze medal but
was disqualified when a
post-event drug test showed
him positive for cocaine and
alcohol in his system.

8. Moral and Ethical Issues
Many athletes, coaches, politicians and fans feel
the use of certain substances is unethical in
sports.

9. The Spirit of Sport
I believe that drugs shouldn’t be used in sports
and that any athlete caught using performance-
enhancing drugs should be banned from all
future sports events without being given second
chances.

10. Pressure is Placed on Athletes to
Perform Better
Today's athlete faces an increasingly
difficult choice:
to use drugs to enhance
performance
or
to accept what could amount
to be a competitive handicap that is
to be in a competition with other
athletes who may certainly be using
PEDs.

11. Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson tested positive for stanozolol and was
stripped of his gold medal as well as his previous 1987
World Championship title.

12. Lance Armstrong
• Armstrong used performance-enhancing
drugs, testosterone, and HGH
• His punishment for using PEDs was to lose all
the medals he had ever won.

13. Why Do Athletes Use PEDs?
• They face a lot of pressure
• They want to perform their best
• Money

14. How Athletes Get Performance
Enhancing Drugs
• Medical doctors
• Pharmacists
• Trainers
• Coaches

15. • Anabolic steroids: the effects of androgens include accelerated
growth of muscle, bone, and red blood cells, and enhanced neural
conduction.
• Human Growth Hormone: HGH promotes and increases
the synthesis of new protein tissues, such as in muscle recovery or repair.
This is the way new muscle is built.
• Creatine: Increasing strength in people with muscle diseases such
as muscular dystrophy.
What Drugs Are Mostly Used

16. Today's athletes continue to push the
boundaries of excellence in performance and
physical fitness. Helping these athletes are more
refined training methods and technologies.

17. The Effects of Using PED
• Aching joints and risk of tendon injuries
• Blood-clotting problems
• High blood pressure
• Liver problems
• Mood swings

18. Some Physical Reasons Why We
Should Stop PEDs
• Dehydration
• Heart problems
• Liver problems
• Cholesterol
• Hypertension
• Stroke
• Acne

19. CONSEQUENCES
• If athletes test positive on a drugs charge they
may not be eligible to compete for a season.
• If they test positive more than once they can
be banned from competition for up to one
year. Some may even be banned from
competition completely and may no longer
able to participate in sport.

20. CONSEQUENCES
• Some cases of drugs testing are disputed and
this can lead to a hearing, arbitration and to
courts at both national and international level.

21. Methods of Detection
• Urine Test An athlete is told to submit a urine sample
for testing. The sample is then sent to a laboratory for
analysis and the results are reported back to the
governing athletic agency.
• Blood test Over time a "blood profile" of an athlete can
be built up to help determine average readings for
each individual. This can help with blood doping tests
in the future

22. • In the past athletes played for love of the game.
• Today the players have so much more at stake
than just being able to play the game because
they love it. Athletes will use any means necessary
to get performance enhancing drugs (PED).
• These drugs will cost athletes thousands of
dollars, but to them it is a small price to pay for
the success it can bring to their career.

23. • The use of performance-enhancing drugs is not
accidental; it is planned and deliberate with the
sole objective of getting an unfair advantage.
• There are several reasons to ban performance-
enhancing drugs:
– respect for the rules of sports,
– recognition that natural talents and their perfection
are the point of sports

24. • Realizing that these drugs are bad for sports
and also a form of cheating, the International
Olympic Committee (IOC) came up with a
basic list of principles concerning
performance-enhancing drugs in sports.

25. Teens Using PEDs
• Performance enhancing drugs
are also on the rise in high
schools.
• Young athletes don’t know or
care about the long term
effects.

27. To quote Heywood Broun, “Sports do not build
character. They reveal it.”
When we use Performing Enhancing Drugs we are
cheating our fellow athletes. Our sports need to
return to the real spirit of sport where all athletes
compete on a level playing field.
Conclusion