184. Should Performance Enhancing Drugs Be Banned in Sports? (English Vocabulary Lesson)
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Should performance enhancing drugs be allowed in professional sports? Some argue that drugs are dangerous, unfair, and against the spirit of sport! Others believe sport would be more exciting with PEDs and that it unfair to stop athletes from reaching their best performance. Let’s learn some new vocabulary and discuss sport and performance enhancing drugs in today’s episode!!
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Vocabulary List
To enhance (v) – to improve the quality, amount, or strength of something
The sauce enhances the flavour of the meat
Doping (n) - the act of giving a person or animal drugs in order to make them perform better or worse in a competition
The anti-doping agency is committed to ending doping in sport
To test (v) - produce a specified result in a medical test, especially a drugs test
He tested positive of COVID-19 last week
Performance (n) - how well a person, machine, etc. does a piece of work or an activity
He was fired from his job for poor performance
Endurance (n) - the ability to keep doing something difficult, unpleasant, or painful for a long time
Running a marathon is a test of human endurance.
To cheat (v) - to behave in a dishonest way in order to get what you want
She cheated in the test by copying from the boy in front
Guinea Pig (n) - a person used in a scientific test, for example to discover the effect of a drug on humans
They are asking student to be guinea pigs in their research into the disease
Clean (adj) - played or done according to the rules
Despite testing positive for steroids, he maintains he is a clean athlete
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