Over the many years that performance enhancing drugs have been around our sports today would be revolved around them. We would think that there wouldn’t be any role models at all. We all know the athlete Alex Rodriguez he is one of the most talented baseball players in the world. He had been questioned by many reporters after his amazing strand of hitting during his stay with the Rangers, posting up 52,57,48 home runs in his stay with the Rangers. He admitted that he used performance enhancing drugs during 2001-2003 while he was with the Texas Rangers. He was suspended last year for the entire season and is planning on playing this season with the New York Yankees. The point of that story was that people knew that he was using these performance enhancing drugs, but they still looked to him as a role model. Many people did criticize him for what he did but no one said that he wasn’t a great athlete before or after he took the drugs. There has been some speculation as to why student athletes are using performance enhancing drugs while they are so young. Some of the reasons that many think is that they use the drugs because they see professional athletes doing them so they think is the cool thing to do. That statement is very inaccurate for the fact they use the drugs to impress the girls/boys. Most of the athletes that use the performance enhancing drugs will not even make …show more content…
Once you were able to understand what the hall of fame were, you wanted to be in it. Performance enhancing drugs can allow more athletes to be in the Hall of Fame. Not every athlete should be allowed in the Hall of Fame but those who made a contribution before, during, and after using the performance enhancing drugs should be in the Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame for those of you who don’t know what it is; it’s a museum that commemorates all the great athletes, coaches, managers, and owners that have made a major impact on the particular sport. If more athletes make it to the Hall of Fame we will be able to remember what many people have done to get