Thesis and Outline Essays - Sports, Doping In Russia, Olympic Games

Thesis and Outline Thesis With countless of blood doping, drug abuse, bribery within the IOC, it hardly represents its core values of responsibility and respect the IOC is striving for. Main argument 1 In recent years, the number of drug abuse among the players have increased dramatically, bringing the integrity of the Olympics into question. Doping is nothing new to the Olympics . ( Smithsonian ) Thomas Bach believes that the system is working. He believes what really matters is that the athletes who abuse drug are being caught: It is becoming "high-stakes competition between Olympic athletes who used banned substances and drug testers out to catch them." The credibility of the drug test is not as strong as Bach states it is. Main argument 2 The IOC that is supposed to work to promote its core values has also been deeply associated with rampant bribery. Salt Lake City Olympic scandal. Dick Pound, former vice president of IOC. Nagano Olympics. Melbourne Olympics. Main argument 3 The athletes have also tarnished organization's core values by blatantly cheating in various ways. Boris Onischenko , Russian fencer Dong Fanxiao , Chinese gymnast. Even in the Paralympics: 2000 Spanish Paralympic basketball team. Ben Johnson, Canadian sprinter.