Should Performance Enhancing Drugs Be Legalized In Professional Sports Essay
I am writing an opinion piece about the argument in today’s sport world, the question, should performance enhancing drugs (PED’s) be legalised in professional sports? I am hoping to pull sport enthusiasts from the ‘ban doping’ side of the argument and look at the full picture long term. I will do this by showing them the positives of legalising PED’s.
Should Performance Enhancing Drugs be
Legalised in Professional Sports?
For years there has been an ongoing argument about whether performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) should be legalised in professional sports. The use of performance-enhancing drugs, commonly known as doping, has been happening behind the scenes. You hear about the athletes in the first Olympic Games (776 B.C.) improving their fights and recovering quickly from fatigue and injuries during their battles by using hallucinogens and stimulants. In my opinion, PEDs should be legalised due …show more content…
Various professional sports leagues have attempted to set a level playing field by testing for drug use and suspending those found guilty. But it’s clearly not working as lots of people are caught doping every year and the playing field is no longer level. To me the only way of leveling the playing field is by heading in the other direction and legalising performance enhancing drugs. Doing this would not only make the sport fairer as everyone is playing on an equal level, but would make sport watching more entertaining as the sport is now at a better level. By legalising PEDs athletes will be able to run faster, jump higher, tackle harder, kick the ball further, harder and faster. Of course, if the athletes had something against taking PEDs they would still be able to play the sport, but they may be disadvantaged as the other players will now be reaching their own peak
Should Performance Enhancing Drugs be
Legalised in Professional Sports?
For years there has been an ongoing argument about whether performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) should be legalised in professional sports. The use of performance-enhancing drugs, commonly known as doping, has been happening behind the scenes. You hear about the athletes in the first Olympic Games (776 B.C.) improving their fights and recovering quickly from fatigue and injuries during their battles by using hallucinogens and stimulants. In my opinion, PEDs should be legalised due …show more content…
Various professional sports leagues have attempted to set a level playing field by testing for drug use and suspending those found guilty. But it’s clearly not working as lots of people are caught doping every year and the playing field is no longer level. To me the only way of leveling the playing field is by heading in the other direction and legalising performance enhancing drugs. Doing this would not only make the sport fairer as everyone is playing on an equal level, but would make sport watching more entertaining as the sport is now at a better level. By legalising PEDs athletes will be able to run faster, jump higher, tackle harder, kick the ball further, harder and faster. Of course, if the athletes had something against taking PEDs they would still be able to play the sport, but they may be disadvantaged as the other players will now be reaching their own peak