Comparative Study on Using Doping Substances or Methods between Individual Sports and Team Sports

Abstract

Doping represents the use of substances that are harmful to health in order to obtain an athletic performance. The list of prohibited substances has grown to a stunning number, having a constant evolution in time because of those who resorted to new and new doping substances and/or methods to artificial improvement of athletic performence, and in the field of athletic health these substances do a lot of damage. The purpose of the study is to bring in front the extent of doping between individual sports and team sports.The aim of the study is to give a wake-up call regarding the increase of athletes who resort to this kind of prohbited methods from individual and team sports.Conclusions: after the study it been concluded that obtaining athletic performance that were not in accordance with the active regulation wasn’t stopped, on the contrary this continued, spreading in almost all athletic disciplines, in team sports but mainly in individual ones.The anti doping campain enlarged its targeting area beginning with 1989 but hasn’t succeded to eradicate doping and only to lessen this scourge. This happens because of the fact that high performance sport became a business , a spectacle for which the spectators are willing to pay and the athletes are willing to assume any risk regarding their own health to satisfy their need to become famous and to have financial gain.