Is everyone playing by the same rules?
Rob and Cath talk about doping in sport and a new test that might prevent some athletes cheating at the 2012 Olympics in London next year.
This week's question:
When was the first modern Olympics held? Was it in:
a) 1886
b) 1896
c) 1906
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme!
Listen
Blood doping
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Vocabulary
- an advantage
something that puts you in a better position than other people
- performance
how well you do in something
- enhancing
increasing or improving the good quality, value or status of somebody or something
- endurance
the ability to bear a difficult or painful situation over a long time
- doping
giving a drug to a person or animal in order to affect their performance in a race or sport
- effective
producing the result that is wanted or successful
- transfuse
to put new blood into the body of a person or an animal
- substantial
large in amount, value or importance
- the nature of
basic quality or character
