Performance Enhancing Drugs in Endurance Sport can Effect an Athlete’s Ethical Decision Making and Consequently Fair Play in Sport

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is used to identify the key significance of Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDS) as they relate to endurance sports. To achieve this, this paper will concentrate on Lance Armstrong and the US Postal Service Cycling Team and will focus PEDS, in specifically on Erythropoietin (EPO) and blood doping in endurance sports. It is important to analyze an athlete’s ethical decision-making skills and see what factors influence an athlete to take PEDS. There is evolving technology and medicine that constantly comes out. Society needs forward thinking for what the next generation of PEDS will have to offer. What are