Credibility is the amount of trust people have in you. For example, a student would have an English teacher read over his paper because he trusts that teacher to catch his mistakes and be able to help him correct them. Kelli White is a professional track athlete who has competed in World Championships. White shows why credibility is an important quality and how cheating affects it. Kelli White was born on April 1, 1977 in Oakland California to parents who were both sprinters. She attended high school in Union City, California and ran track. She was 12 when Remi Korchemny became her coach (Plitt). She would reunite with him after graduating college (Plitt). When Kelli White was 17, she was attacked and cut by a knife. Even though her injury required more than 300 stitches, she continued to run that year (Plitt). When White graduated in 1995, she held the record in the 200 meter dash and had the second best time in the 100 meter dash in the North Coast Section. She went to the University of Tennessee on a scholarship and graduated in 1999 (Plitt). Kelli White continued to be successful after graduating college. White won gold in both the 100 meters and 200 meters at the World Championship in Paris in 2003 (Nazzara 1). Less than a year away from the 2004 Summer Olympics, White tested positive for a stimulant, modafinil (Nazzara 1). Her family has a history of narcolepsy, a sleeping disorder, and she claimed she was using the stimulant for medical reasons (Nazzara 1). It was proven that she did not need the modafinil for medical reasons (Nazzara 1). White’s coach had taken her to a colleague, Conte, who provided her with multiple vitamins and supplements, one of which he called flaxseed oil (Plitt). When he told her the flaxseed oil w... ... middle of paper ... ... will really drop and many colleges will not want you. Having good credibility is always important, not only to famous athletes. Works Cited Crumpacker, John. "SPORTS AND DRUGS / Kelli White Suspended / The Fast Rise and Swift Fall of a Bay Area Olympic-class Sprinter / 2-YEAR BAN: Results, Income Wiped out." SFGate. Hearst Communications, Inc., 20 May 2004. Web. 10 Mar. 2014. Knapp, Gwen. "A Track Star Betrayed by Ambition." SFGate. Hearst Communications, Inc., 3 Dec. 2004. Web. 07 Mar. 2014. Nazzara, Nicole. "Out of Track’s Doping Scandal, Redemption and Progress." The New York Times. The New York Times, 17 Aug. 2013. Web. 07 Mar. 2014. Plitt, Todd. "USATODAY.com - Sprinter Reveals Career Demise." USATODAY.com - Sprinter Reveals Career Demise. USA Today, 02 Dec. 2004. Web. 07 Mar. 2014. "White Banned For Two Years." BBC News. BBC, 20 May 2004. Web. 10 Mar. 2014.
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Betty Marion White was born on January 17, 1922 in Oak Park, Illinois. She is the only child of Horace and Tess White, an electrical engineer and a house wife. At the age of two her and her family moved to Los Angeles. Betty White graduated from Beverly Hills High School California, in 1939 at 17. Betty started modeling they same year she graduated. She first did various radio shows in the 40s. But her first TV show was on Hollywood in Television in 1949. Whites first produced television show was Life with Elizabeth. "I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood."
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The history of sports goes back since ancient times. It has been a useful way for people to explore nature and their environment. Sports include different activities and games such as football, soccer, basketball, and etc. to express their skills and talents. Also, sports are a way to relax and have fun; but are sports all our African Americans rely on? The dream to become future sports stars. The reason why Gates begins his essay with an anecdote is to show and compare how many african-american athletes were at work today and how little the chances of African-Americans becoming athletes are compared to being a lawyer, dentist, or even a doctor. African-Americans assume that they are born athletes and it’s because the school system doesn’t teach them reality and educate them to undertake more realistic goals for careers.
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But according to Dilley-Knoles in “Making the Grade: Academic Success in Today’s Athlete,” he seems to believe the total opposite. He points out “attention has not always been solely about games and competitions” apparently the “spotlight” has recently been “redirected to academics (Dilley-Knoles). Today, athletes wanting to participate in athletics have to meet specific criteria before being on a team of some sort in high-school (Dilley-Knoles). Knoles explains how over the last few years, the National Collegiate Athletic (NCAA) has created certain standards for academic performance for those students who are in sports (Dilley-Knoles). Certain programs have been created to reward sport teams that do well academically, and penalizing those that don’t (Dilley-Knoles). Although Gabby Douglass was the first women of color “of any nationality and the first African-American gymnast in Olympic history” to become the “Individual All-Around Champion,” I believe the photo shows that athletics was more important than academics (Mike). The young girl below her suggests that she’s more focused on school because she might have not had the same opportunity as Gabby did. Athletes, similar to Gabby, find the pursuit of athletics to be “lucrative” which is something that society values through money (Kannan). In “Which is more important, sports or academics, and how can the choice are
The desire to compete — and win — is as old as history itself. From the beginnings of sport, athletes have sought out foods and potions to turn their bodies into winning machines. As early as 776 BCE, the very first Olympic games, there are records of attempts to increase testosterone levels (“Steroid Abuse in Sports”). Ancient Greek wrestlers ate vast amounts of meat to gain muscle mass, and Norse “Berserker” warriors took hallucinogenic mushrooms before battle. The first competitive athletes to be charged for doping, however, were swimmers in 1860s Amsterdam. Doping of all kinds, from caffeine to cocaine to anabolics quickly spread to other sports (“Anabolic Steroids, a Brief History”).
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Early in my time at Griswold High School, there happened to be a sprinter that competed on the girl's track team. She was an all-around athlete and had the potential to be extremely successful in both the sprinting and jumping events. During her junior year, her performances in both practices and the meets began to decline rapidly. Shayne Stedman, who was the girl’s coach at the time, came to me and voiced his confusion over how to handle this. After determining that there was nothing physically or medically wrong with the girl, we began to seek an alternative solution. Over the next few weeks her performances continued to plummet, and with it, so did her confidence. With about a month to go in the season, she finally informed us that she and
Caster Semenya is a black athlete track star from South Africa and is a gold medal winner for the 800 meters at the 2009 World Championships with the fastest time of the year finishing the race with 1:55.45 time and after this event many have questioned her gender due to her masculine physique and built. Everyone believed that there was no way a woman can be running that fast of a time and demanded that she take a drug test, so the IAAF (International Association of Athletic Federations) did a test and they have found no type of performance enhancing drugs in her system, then what comes next is that many believed she wasn’t a women. So the IAAF performed a gender test just in a short period of time after they did a drug test and found out that Caster Semenya has both female and male organs so she could not be categorized as a male or a female and labeled her as a hermaphrodite. This brings a problem for IAAF for whether or not she has a competitive advantage in competing with women in races even though she could not be categorized as a woman or a man in competition and there wasn’t a separate race for hermaphrodites. It was a very controversial on how the IAAF first did a drug test and found nothing since they believed she was doing performance enhancing drugs and after that they did a gender test which brought some historical athletes in protesting the gender test and one of those athletes was Michael Johnson who is a retired sprinter and many have said the reason of this scrutiny has to be with her race as well since she was a black athlete.
In the year 1936, not just racial tension in America was spreading, but it was as if the world was diagnosed with a viral racial sickness. The Olympics were hosted that year in Berlin, Germany. Jesse Owen’s devotion to track finally paid off for him by being “one of the ten blacks selected to the sixty six member Olympic team.” (“Jesse Owens” UXL 1) The German...
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