Once you have watched all three videos, post a brief summary of each plus your views on each one. This will be due Friday October 19th. With Doping For Gold I expect there to be a developed thought process since this is a long documentary. You will also turn in written video notes on Friday as well.
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Megan Duhig
10/19/2018 11:06:32 am
Doping for gold
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Garett Robertson
10/19/2018 11:20:35 am
Doping for Gold- This documentary was very eye opening to what was actually going on while the East Germans were training for the Olympic games. In East Germany, coaches and doctors were encouraging their athletes to take hormones and other supplements to boost their performance. These medicines increased the athletes muscle mass and lowered recovery time. The medicines had testosterone and other Male hormones in them that boosted performance. These supplements also had negative health effects on the athletes that took them. Some of these effects were, hair growth, deepening of voice, and development of other male traits. None of the athletes were told what they were taking. Doctors knew that these drugs could have many negative side effects, but decided to keep them a secret. While these drugs may have helped the East Germans win medals, the long term effects on the athletes were horrible. While the East Germans may have thought this was a good idea, I do not think this was the best way of winning. If the East Germans wanted to win gold, they should have trained naturally without the use of performance enhancing drugs.
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Josh bond
10/19/2018 11:43:34 am
Can technology give us more empathy towards sports?
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Heather Mangrum
10/19/2018 11:49:11 am
Doping For Gold
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Halle Smith
10/19/2018 11:49:48 am
Can Technology Give Us More Empathy Towards Sports?
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Heather Mangrum
10/19/2018 11:50:05 am
How Augmented Reality Will Change Sports
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Heather Mangrum
10/19/2018 11:50:41 am
Sports Psychology: Inside the Mind of Champion Athletes
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Victoria Maynard
10/24/2018 06:39:51 am
Doping for Gold: In the movie doping for gold Germany was divided into the east and west parts separated by the Berlin Wall, during the video one of East Germany's excuses to being so desperate to win gold was to keep the citizens of East Germany distracted from the economical advances of West Germany. While East Germany was trying to distract everyone who lived there with sports the rich built schools for kids gifted enough in sports to go to the Olympics. Kids in these schools were treated like royalty and given foods like fruits that they couldn't get at home. So when the kids in these schools were given medicines daily they did not ask questions about what the medicines or pills were out of the fear of being sent home knowing they had the good life living in the boarding schools for sports. The excess pills had many effects on the girls bodies which had barely hit puberty when they had started the medicine. Some of the girls ended up having excess hair growth, deep voices to the point to where they couldn't do interviews, and took on more masculine figures. These where the physical effects of the athletes bodies in East Germany but there were other effects as well. One of the effects that doctors knew about was the effects in the female reproductive system, so doctors started the girls on birth control giving them another pill to take, the doctors giving these girls the birth control told them it was to help with their period . These pills also caused the sudden death of a 16 year old in a pool and might have lead to a later development of cancer in a former athlete. Another athlete who to the pills in her youth had so man manky changes to her body that she struggled with identity issues and underwent a surgery to change from a woman to a man. The effects of these pills were way more severe than thought out to be, East Germany risked lives of many athletes all for a gold medal and five seconds of glory. Innocent kids weren't given the choice to be fair to competitors or healthy for themselves all because of a drug that was more dangerous than made to be.
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Victoria Maynard
10/24/2018 10:08:19 am
Sports psychology: The TED y’all to sports psychology talked about how different factors of and athletes routine contributes to how the do in the present and future. The video talked about how every athlete needs a good routine and it can be something like being silly or listening to music to calm down and relax, things to get them calmed and relaxed to compete. It also talks about the importance of an athlete handling pressure, this is important because if an athlete does not know how to cope with different situations or the pressure of winning and not losing it could easily throw off their ability to perform their task. The video also talks about how the athlete has to be motivated there has to be a reason the athlete wants to do good (ex: for a family memeber, it’s their job, for themselves) if the athlete is not motivated in their event they will not have the confidence to do good for themselves or others. I think this video was agreeable because all of these factors contribute to how and athlete competes. These factors are also big in sportsmed because dealing with an athletes injuries also has to do with their physiological state of mind
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Emma Klenke
10/31/2018 11:32:16 am
Doping for Gold:
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