Through the history of sports there has always been cheating. Cheating in sports has always been a topic for conversations, controversy and debates. It seems that cheating currently is at the highest point, and will not go down anytime soon. With the fast development of technology and medical science it seems that drug use in sports will increase. The line between acceptable and unacceptable will be harder to determine as it takes time to make proper tests. There are various different motives for someone to cheat. Some sportsmen cheated because of the pressure to be the best. Some cheated for money and some of them cheat because they simply want to have fun. Regardless of the reasons, it seems that the cheating has only increased and will continue to increase even more as …show more content…
Use of herbs and hallucinogens to improve the performance and to lower fatigue or injures has been known since the Ancient Olympic Games in Greece. During that time the use of herbs, hallucinogens, and other drugs was acceptable and was not considered as cheating. With the development of the medical science through the history, many different kinds of drugs that were developed for the medical purposes find their ways to sport to enhance athletes’ performance. The use of the performance in sport become a problem. The more the medical science advances the drug abuse in sports increases. The anti-doping agencies around the world have a constant effort to identify those athletes that cheat. There is a strong desire among athletes to be the best and with the money involved, the cheating in sports continue with to the present days and will only increase in the future as the athletes are becoming more sophisticated n finding their ways to