The rise and struggle of female sport participation in the Olympic Games since 1896. In this essay I will explain and justify the rise and development of female participation in the Olympic Games with specific reference to the 14 year struggle between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and La Federation Sportive Feminine Internationale (FSFI) Times were changing. ... Although women had competed at the international Olympic Committee Games since 1900 in tennis and golf, and later on in archery, gymnastics, skating and swimming. ... She started the Women's Games in direct...

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THE MODERN OLYMPICS HAS NO PLACE IN OUR WORLD The International Olympic Committee's slogan is "Celebrate humanity" Their aim is to promote communication and show the extraordinary and inspiring values embodied within the Olympic Games; A german athlete advice to friend Jesse Owens enabled the African-American athlete to win a gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. ... The first drug tests were held by the Olympic Committee during the 1968 Games in Mexico City; and only one athlete was caught for alcohol use. ... Is the money really necessary or is it simply a chance for the In...

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All sports though, and especially in the Olympics are being tested. ... Possibly the strictest area of sports drug testing is in the Olympics. ... In 1967 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) established the IOC Medical Commission. ... All this brings about the question do the Olympics test too much? ... Lester Lee former head of testing for the United States Olympic Committee says absolutely not. ...

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Recreational drugs are also among the substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the international organization that enforces drug rules for the Olympics and other international sporting events. ... The East Germans showed up at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada, with a team of women swimmers sporting man-sized muscles and deep voices ("Performance"). ... The first major Olympic disqualification due to steroids occurred in 1988, when the Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of both his gold medal and his world record in the 100-meter sprint after testing positive for ...

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Anabolic Steroids were banned from Olympic competition just before the nineteen seventy six Olympics, but steroids were introduced to athletes years before the Montreal Olympics. ... Johnson had to give back all the gold metals that he won during the Olympics, and in the one hundred meter dash the winner was Carl Lewis. ... In the nineteen eighty eight Olympics Ben Johnson, a Canadian Olympic sprinter, was the first athlete caught testing positive for anabolic steroid use. During the Montreal Olympics Johnson won the Gold medal in the one-hundred meter dash and also broke the world record, ...

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It is in this final point, by which the image and integrity of many sports organizations, including the Olympics, have been damaged by revelations of the widespread use of illegal drugs. Currently, the International Olympic Committee prohibits the use of anabolic steroids for performance enhancement (Anabolic Steroids 2002). ... Ben Johnson drew considerable negative attention to himself, as well as to Canada, as a sports competitor when he was tested positive for using anabolic steroids following a win in the 100 m race at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. ...

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