undersized growth. Athletes inject themselves with the performance enhancing drug to improve their performances. The legal use of prescription steroids can be use to treat different conditions that cause a loss of lean muscle mass. However, many believe steroids should be used in professional sports because it can increase the number of ticket sales of games, show the full potential of the athlete, and cheating would not exist anymore in sports. More people would want to see the athletes on steroids
athletes who have taken performance enhancing drugs in the past and lived to regret it. Never before has there been so much help for athletes. Today’s technology, coaches and equipment has never been better. However, cheating within sport has never been such a problem. Almost one tenth of all athletes have admitted to taking at least one form of performance enhancing drugs. As a result anti-doping agencies are spending a considerable amount of time and money trying to keep sport clean. I personally
The use of performance enhancing drugs in sports (doping) is done to improve athletic performance. Doping in sports has become a highly controversial topic among professional sporting venues and in the media. With the increased pressure to perform, high priced contracts, increased competition, and advanced training methods today’s athletes will try to gain an edge by any means necessary. Performance enhancing drugs used by athletes today include Human Growth Hormone (HGH), anabolic steroids, peptide
competition or Olympic future goal of every athlete. Their effort to pursue that dream can be acrimonious. In sake get through that tough competition, performance enhancing drugs has become their best choice. Before discussing any further, it would be better for finding out about Performance Enhancing Drugs. PEDs which stands for performance enhancing drugs are substances that are used by the athletes for advancing their accomplishment. The word ‘doping’ itself comes from the Dutch word ‘doop’ means viscous
you how and it will tell you why it should be legal to do so. Doping in sports is one of the most extensive debates within the realm of sports whether it be injecting anabolic steroids, consuming them, or blood doping, athletes will do drugs - it has no effect on the viewership of the sport and athletes can cheat the system anyway; trying to prevent the use seems impossible, instead it should be allowed under medical supervision. Performance enhancing drugs (steroids) are defined as substances
All athletes of all sports on a professional level must be required to undergo drug testing for performance enhancing drugs prior to participating in any sporting event to ensure an equal level playing field for all competing athletes, no matter the sport. Furthermore, performance enhancing drugs are illegal and must remain this way in order to keep fairness in the competitive world of sports. The bottom line is that athletes should not be able to do performance enhancing drugs and continue to be
their hands by the Olympic committee because that someone you know tested positive for steroids. The use of performance enhancing drugs, or doping, is more of a shortcut athletes take in their training regimen. In most sports, athletes need to build strength in a short period of time to perform at the highest level; however, these athletes do not think of the possible negative repercussions drugs have on their health. For athletes, pressure to perform at the highest level comes from many angles. In many
McCallum “Man created sports and man just as well has started to ruin sports” (McCallum 2). Many people think steroids are the worst thing to come to sports, and others such as coaches and trainers want the players to do the best they can, so they give enhancing drugs to the players. Steroids are not only harmful to the body but ultimately steroids take the beauty away from sports ultimately ruining the integrity of the game. Sports were made for man, not man and drugs; steroids should have never been
in sports has been one of the most discussed issues by the world; either by the free writers or the body of agencies related with sports. The discussion started when Lance Armstrong, who won the 2002 Tour de France by leaving his nearest rival 7 seconds behind, failed the drug test. Ellis Cashmore, a professor of culture, media, and sports at Staffordshire University in the United Kingdom, through his article Making Sense of Spots, came up with an argument of drugs should be allowed in sports. He
Drug usage in sports goes way back to when the ancient Greeks used it for the Olympics. Drug use allowed until 1928 when the International Association of Athletics Federation prohibited it. However, it seems as, if not many people paid attention during World War II because the American, British, German, and Japanese armed forces distributed amphetamines to their soldiers, a drug that is used for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, narcolepsy, and obesity. The amphetamines were used as a substitute