Steroids Persuasive Speech

Imagine that you were worked your entire life to make the olympic team or was drafted by a team of the MLB. Your getting on the blocks. You get set, you're ready. Bang, you push yourself forward. You're giving everything you have to run your fastest and to pass the finish line before your opponents. You pass the finish line with exhaustion, you finish the race in second place and you're happy but you really wanted that gold medal. Later on you find out that the winner of that race that you got second in was taking steroids and was taking other illegal drugs to make him better. How would you feel if your whole life is training and working for that sport or race and you give it your all but in the end you can't win because you are up against
somebody who is taking performance-enhancing drugs to give them the edge over you. Some people think that steroids and other enhancing drugs make the game better and speed up recovery from an injury which is true. Some also say if they just let it be legal nobody will care and things will be more exciting, but it's not natural. Taking these performance-enhancing drugs will hurt your health later on and will give you an illegal advantage over other competitors. You shouldn't take any of these drugs and these drugs should be illegal and banned in all sports.
Getting caught with these performance-enhancing drugs have serious consequences for having them or selling them. Steroids you can have a maximum of a year in prison for having them and a minimum of 1,000 dollar fine. If you were taking them while you were competing, you can have whatever you won taken away from you. Any sponsors you had now won't ever sponsor you. Why take these things when there are huge consequences and think about what people will think of you once your story gets out that the only reason you won the gold medal was because becausing you were doping. Some people like Lance Armstrong almost get away with doping. Lance was a professional road racing cyclist who won the Tour de France 7 consecutive times in the years 1999-2005. He had the whole world believe that he was not doping and went on to be one of the best cyclist ever. Once his story got out for his team and him using performance-enhancing drugs, he was stripped from his medals and now looked at as a cheater. Why work so hard for something and take short cuts just for in the end everything is taken away from you because you cheated and now everyone looks at you so much differently for it. Another example of someone who made a huge accomplishment was Marion Jones who won 5 gold medals in the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was the first female track star to accomplish this, but then in 2006 she tested positive for banned substances. She later confessed that she did use banned substances and all of her medals were taken from her. Again why? Why do something or take something that could ruin your reputation and then looked upon as a cheater.
This performance-enhancing drugs ranged from steroids, hormone enhances, beta-blockers and etc.
All these are banned substances but one of these are one of the most common. Steroids are used to increase muscle growth, strength, and recovery. You can find a lot of people using steroids in the sport called bodybuilding, and when you ask people to look at a picture of a famous bodybuilder people already assume steroids. Steroids have destroyed the sport in everyone just thinks it's just a bunch of muscle heads taking steroids, and that's because of the people in this sport decided to take these drugs to get the upperhand on their opponents but really it's just destroyed the sport and it's just about who can take the most steroids and who can get the biggest and not about who has the best body. The world has kinda revolved around cheating as Tirado said “Which among you is not looking for an advantage to do better in this game called life right now? We have become a society of cheaters, and as much as we want to pretend that we're all goody two-shoes and living a perfect life, we are all guilty of looking for shortcuts at one point or another. We actually glorify it in business, politics and education, but god forbid we see it in sports." (Stephen Nolan) If you get caught taking these drugs you don't just hurt your reputation you hurt the sport's reputation and how people look upon the
sport.
If you still wanna take these drugs even though you know the risks of getting caught. There are a lot of health risks for taking these performance-enhancing drugs. Some have more then other but they all have health risks. There are a ton of health effects from steroids, which is one of the most popular performance-enhancing drugs. Some of the health effects include acne aggressiveness, asthenia, baldness, brain tissue damage, depression, dizzy spells, fever, hair growth on the face and body (females), kidney tumours, liver dysfunction etc. These are just some of the health risks that you can have from taking steroids. Why would you want to take something that can put your health in serious danger.
Some might be think the reward of winning a gold medal by cheating outweighs doing it the natural and the right way. Taking these drugs can come with big consequences so why take these. You will looked upon as a cheater and everything you earned will be taken away from you because you cheated. That's why you shouldn't take these performance-enhancing drugs and why they should stay illegal.