Should Performance Enhancing Drugs Be Allowed In Sports

“The spirit of sport is the celebration of the human spirit, the body and the mind. Doping is contrary to the spirit of sport, erodes public confidence and jeopardises the health and well-being of athletes.” -World Anti-Doping Agency. Performance-enhancing drugs are substances that are used to improve any form of activity performance in humans(Wikipedia,2017). When it comes to performance-enhancing drugs in athletics, there are mixed views from whether or not it should be allowed. Cycling, athletics, weightlifting, and swimming have been regularly associated with athletes using PEDs, no sport is immune. Throughout the years the world has seen big time athletes have so much fame to just in second their whole life drastically changes. There are the big time athletes that have been in the Olympics or even in the finals of that sport, they have turned to PEDs to increase their
“If both sides agree to cheat, cheating is fair”. The same argument is applied to professional sports and women. “Ben Johnson, Marion Jones and Lance Armstrong are the three highest-profile individual doping cheats of the past 30 years but everybody involved in sport knows that many of their rivals on the track and in the saddle were cheating, too, even if many were never caught(Oliver,2015).” “Doctors had discovered that pregnant women could gain an advantage in muscle power, suppleness and lung capacity, because they produced more red blood cells. So all the gymnasts, two of whom were 15 at the time, were forced to become pregnant before the Olympics: if they did not have a husband or boyfriend, they were made to have sex with a male coach. Anyone who refused was thrown off the team. After 10 weeks of pregnancy every gymnast had an abortion. They won the team gold medal by a fraction of a point, with Czechoslovakia second.(Oliver,