Drug Free Olympics

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http://www.thehoodtimes.com/files/images/Oprah%20Winfrey%20ShowMarion%20Jones.jpg

http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2007/10/08/image3345524g.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/06/sports/othersports/06balco.html?ref=timmontgomery

http://www.wada-ama.org/en/About-WADA/History/A-Brief-History-of-Anti-Doping/

http://www.drugfreesport.com/services/drug-education-programs.asp

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http://renewedfitness.org/wpcontent/uploads/2010/11/MarionJonesMedals.jpg

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http://www.biography.com/articles/Marion-Jones-9357466

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I. Engagement: The activities in this section capture the student's attention, stimulate their thinking and help them access prior knowledge. The teacher will begin by reading the Marion Jones Biography (can be found at http://www.biography.com/articles/Marion-Jones-9357466) or attached to the end of this lesson. The students will each be given a copy of “Marion Jones—You ought to be in Pictures” worksheet. They will then be instructed to choose one photo of Marion Jones, and imagine as if they are in the photo, or an observer of the scene of the photo. They should write down their choice, their feelings about the photo, what they plan to do as a result of the scene in the photo, and their role in the photo.

II. Exploration: In this section students are given time to think, plan, investigate, and organize collected information The students will now complete a R.A.F.T. exercise with two articles. Divide the class into two groups. To the first group, hand out a copy of ‘Kids on steroids willing to risk it all for success,’ and to the second group, hand out a copy of ‘Steroid inquiry widens to teen athletes.’ The first group will be assigned the following R.A.F.T.: Role: Professional Athletes and role models who have used steroids Audience: Taylor Hooton Format: Apology Letter Topic: Negative effects of using steroids The second group will be assigned the following: Role: Athlete Audience: School Board Format: Letter Topic: Importance of funding drug testing programs After the students have completed their RAFT exercises, have them pair up with someone from the other group (first group with second group). The students will give their partner a brief summary of their article, and then read their RAFT. They will take turns doing this, so each student will be exposed to both of the readings.

III. Explanation: Students are now involved in an analysis of their exploration. Their understanding is clarified and modified because of reflective activities Next, the teacher will give a Power Point over the history of the World Anti-Doping Agency (A brief history of WADA can be found at http://www.wada-ama.org/en/About-WADA/History/A-Brief-History-of-Anti-Doping/), followed by the dangers of performance enhancing drugs and their effects on the human body. This is a good time to elaborate on the negative biological effects of these types of drugs, and ask the students some particular things they may have learned from the articles. Following the Power Point, the teacher should lead the class in a discussion about the importance of sportsmanship in competition.

IV. Extension: This section gives students the opportunity to expand and solidify their understanding of the concept and/or apply it to a real world situation This portion of the lesson will take place during the next class period. A speaker from Drug Free Sport in Kansas City will come and give a presentation “Drug and Supplement Use in Sports.” This is a customized drug education program provided by the organization that helps to inform students, athletes, and coaches about the dangers of using performance enhancing drugs as well as the drug-testing process.

V. Evaluation Assesses both learning and teaching and can use a wide variety of informal and formal assessment strategies. Students will be given the ‘Drug Free Olympics Assessment’ to test their mastery of the lesson objectives.

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An article from Biography.com

Marion Jones Biography

Jones early displayed talent on the track, and her family moved several times during her adolescence so that she could compete on prominent junior-high and high-school teams. By the time she was 12, Jones had begun competing internationally. She was also an accomplished high-school basketball player, winning California's Division I Player of the Year award in 1993. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a basketball scholarship, and in 1994 she helped the women's basketball team win the national title. Jones decided to sit out the 1995–96 basketball season in order to focus on track and on the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. A series of foot injuries, however, prevented her from trying out for the U.S. Olympic team. She then returned to basketball, and in 1997 she was named the Most Valuable Player of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament.

After graduating in 1997, Jones concentrated on track. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, she won gold medals in the 100 metres (10.75 sec) and the 200 metres (21.84 sec) and as a member of the 4 400-metre relay team (3 min 22.62 sec); she also claimed bronze medals in the long jump and the 4 100-metre relay. At the 2001 world championships, Jones won gold medals in the 200 metres and the 4 100-metre relay, and she went undefeated during the 2002 season. She took much of 2003 off because of the birth of her son. She returned to athletics in 2004 but was not up to her previous form. At the Olympic Games in Athens that year, she managed only a fifth-place finish in the long jump.

Through much of her career, Jones was suspected of using steroids. In 2003 a federal investigation into illegal steroid distribution by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) led to allegations by BALCO founder Victor Conte and Jones's ex-husband, C.J. Hunter, that the sprinter used banned substances. Jones, who had never failed a drug test at that time, denied the allegations. In 2006 she tested positive for a banned substance but was later cleared by a follow-up test. The following year, however, she pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators about her drug use and admitted to having taken steroids. In November 2007 track and field's international governing body—the International Association of Athletics Federations—annulled all of Jones's results since September 2000, including her Olympic titles. The International Olympic Committee officially stripped Jones of her five medals from the Sydney Games the following month. In January 2008 she was sentenced to six months in prison for providing false statements to federal investigators about her steroid use and for her involvement in a check-fraud scheme.

In an attempt to revive her long-dormant basketball career, Jones signed with the Tulsa Shock of the Women's National Basketball Association in 2010.
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Kids on steroids willing to risk it all for success

By Jacqueline Stenson

MSNBC contributor

In a nation where the Super Bowl is the

professional athletes in a range of sports rake

in millions of dollars in salaries and

endorsements, it's not hard to see why many

kids grow up idolizing athletes. Some sports

stars may deny they are role models for a

younger generation, but a new study suggests

quite the contrary.

admitted to using anabolic steroids in a

confidential survey, 57 percent said

professional athletes influenced their decision

to use the drugs and 63 percent said pro

athletes influenced their friends' decision to

use them. Eighty percent of users — and 35

percent of non-users — said they believed

steroids could help them achieve their athletic

dreams.
What's more, the steroid users said they were

willing to take extreme risks to reach sports

stardom or other athletic goals. The survey

found that 65 percent of steroid users versus

6 percent of non-users said they would be

willing to use a pill or powder, including

dietary supplements, if it guaranteed they

harm their health, and 57 percent of users

versus 4 percent of non-users said they

would take a pill or powder even if it may

shorten their life.
"It's scary," says study author Jay Hoffman,

chair of health and exercise science at the

College of New Jersey in Ewing. "This study

shows that adolescents are willing to take

those risks."
The survey, conducted from 2005 to 2006,

involved more than 3,200 students in 12

states, most of them from New Jersey,

Pennsylvania and New Mexico. Other states

included Iowa, Wisconsin, Connecticut,

Missouri, Ohio, Colorado, New York,

Minnesota and California.
Overall, 1.6 percent of students (2.4 percent of

boys and .8 percent of girls) — about 50

students in total — reported using anabolic

steroids, according to results published in the

January issue of the journal Medicine &

Science in Sports & Exercise. That's lower than

more nationally representative research, such

as the government's National Youth Risk

Behavior Survey, which found in 2005 that 4

percent of kids in grades 9 through 12

reported steroid use.
In the new survey, steroid use increased with

age, especially in boys, with almost 6 percent

of 12th grade males reporting steroid use.

Users say they'd take drugs to excel even if it shortened their lives

Some students reported using other dietary

supplements to boost their game or physical

appearance. Of all students surveyed, 17

percent said they had used supplements such

as protein powders, creatine and amino acids

to gain body mass. And 35 percent said they

had used supplements such as fat burners,

high-energy drinks, ephedra and caffeine pills

in an attempt to lose weight. The more

supplements kids took, the more likely they

were to also use steroids.

scandals in recent months. In December, for

instance, the Mitchell Report implicated more

than 80 professional baseball players in the

use of steroids. And last fall, sprinter Marion

Jones admitted to lying about steroid use and

returned her five Olympic medals.
Not all kids see anything wrong with steroids

in sports though. In the new survey, 57

percent of steroid users and 12 percent of

non-users said they believe pro athletes have

the right to use steroids. And 60 percent of

users and 29 percent of non-users actually

thought using anabolic steroids for athletic

purposes is legal.

Hoffman blames lack of education about the

dangers of these drugs as well as the influence

of elite athletes who use steroids.

being a role model," Hoffman says. "Whether

they want it or not, it comes with the territory."
Dr. Linn Goldberg, who's involved with

national programs to counter steroids in

youth sports, says the new study confirms

what he has seen anecdotally.

young kid's life," says Goldberg, who is head

of the division of health promotion and sports

medicine at the Oregon Health and Science

University in Portland. "The mindset is that if [a

pro athlete] had to use that, then maybe I

should use that."
Through his program called Athletes Training

and Learning to Avoid Steroids (ATLAS), he is

trying to educate kids that there are

alternatives to steroids, such as sports-

specific training regimens and diets that help

athletes gain muscle naturally.

Don Hooton wishes he had known about the

warning signs of steroid abuse. His son,

Taylor, 17, killed himself in 2003, six weeks

after discontinuing steroid use.
"All the signs were there that Taylor was using

steroids," says Hooton, who lives in Plano,

Texas. Taylor, a high school baseball player,

worked out three times a day, gained 30

pounds of muscle in 90 days, developed acne

on his back and started having 'roid rages. "He

would just fly off the handle for seemingly no

reason," says Hooton.

they didn't know what. And they actually

praised him for his muscle development

because they thought it was the pure result of

all his hard work at the gym. They didn't

realize it's impossible to naturally gain so

much muscle so quickly.
Now through the Taylor Hooton Foundation,

the family is working to raise awareness of the

dangers of steroids in youth. Because teens

are still developing and already have raging  

hormones, experts worry that steroids —

which, among other possible effects, may

shrink testicles, raise cholesterol, promote

liver tumors, spur breast growth in males, and

shrink breasts and deepen voice in females —

may be particularly dangerous for them.

testing for steroids in schools. New Jersey and

Florida are already doing testing, and Texas

and Illinois are making plans to test. "We need

a random testing program not to put a kid in

jail but to give them a chance to get caught,"

says Hooton. If kids face the threat of getting

caught and being kicked off a team or losing a

scholarship, they might think twice before

using steroids or other performance-

enhancers, he says.
Such testing isn't perfect though. It can't

reliably detect human growth hormone, for

instance, which is believed to be catching on

with youth athletes as it seems to be with

adults.
That's why Hooton and others hope the sports

world cracks down harder on doping. "It's not

just about [pro athletes]," Hooton says. "It's

about our kids. It's about Taylor and

hundreds of thousands of kids."
 

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Drug Free Olympics Assessment:

Name:_________________________________ Period:__________

1. 
   List at least three risk factors of taking performance enhancing drugs:
   

2. 
   Describe one thing you learned about the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
   

3. 
   Write at least one paragraph describing why drug-free competition is so important.