2. Performance enhancing drugs
Role model
doping
Stripped of his titles
Reputation in tatters
Banned for life
excuse
Livestrong
admit
denybully
7 titles
Yellow jersey
Blood tests
To make an
example of
somebody
The most sophisticated
doping system in the
history of sport.
The ringleader
disgraced
3. Discuss the following sentences in your group:
• “If everyone else is cheating, it’s stupid not to.”
• “When you cheat, the only person you’re cheating is yourself.”
• “Winning is all that matters.”
• “It’s the taking part that counts.”
• “All cheats deserve lifetime bans.”
• “If there were no controls or punishments, everyone would cheat.”
• “You aren’t sorry you cheated, you’re sorry you got caught.”
• “Cheats never prosper.”
• “All performance enhancing drugs should be legalised, then we
could see what the human body is really capable of.”
• “Being a good cheat is a positive quality in today’s society.”
• “ If you cheat in an exam you should receive a zero.”
• “Cheating is human nature.”
• “Some of the most influential people in today’s society cheated and
robbed their way to the top.”
• “Cheating is a growing problem in sport.”
4. Discuss these situations with your group. What would you do in each situation?
1. You are playing football. It is the 90th minute of the match. Your team win a corner, the ball
comes in, you try to head it but it hits your head and then your hand and flies into the goal.
Nobody sees that it hit your hand, your teammates run over to congratulate you.
2. 2 days before your final exam a classmate comes to you with a copy of the exam paper. He
offers it to you for €50. He says that all of your other classmates have bought a copy except
one.
3. You go to a charity event to raise money for food for hungry children in Africa. At the event
they have a raffle. You bump into someone by accident and you both drop your tickets on
the floor. The tickets are accidently swapped. You win a 5 star Caribbean holiday in the raffle
but on your way to collect your prize you realise that it is not your ticket.
4. You are a professional cyclist. Last year you finished 10th in the tour de France, the year
before 11th and the year before that 15th. A doctor comes to your gym one day saying that
he has developed a new performance enhancing drug that cannot be detected by any type
of doping test. He wants 50% of any future prize money you make in exchange for the drug.
5. You are a tennis player. 2 weeks before a big match at the US open you get a call from an
umpire. He says that he is going to be the umpire for your match, he insinuates that if you
pay him a bribe he will “help” you during the match.
