p.e.d's
P.E.D’s
10/18/2013
Jason Grannon
“Hey dad”, the second set of scouts are going to be at the National Championship baseball game”. These were the words of a promising athlete who did have a wonderful natural ability for pitching. This athlete could throw a pitch with imaginable great accuracy and even better velocity. Sadly though the athlete was conditioned to think that his natural ability was not good enough. His father and his coaches kept telling him that he needed to be stronger, faster, and get bigger. They said this was the only way he would be able to achieve his dream of playing the big league. With three months before the National championship playoffs this athlete started to use Performance Enhancing Drugs in this case (Anabolic Steroids). Within the first month there was a noticeable gain in his muscle mass. There were also noticeable changes in his attitude and completion. When the day of the Championship game arrived the athlete threw the best game of his life. When the game ended the Committee suspected use of Performance Enhancing drugs so they decided to test the athlete. The results from the drug test were positive for anabolic steroids. The scouts didn’t want to touch this tainted athlete ever again. While performance enhancing drugs can make you stronger, faster, bigger and banned from sports for life.
Today there is a new type of athlete in sports whose natural skill and training are not the only tools used to perform. Performance Enhancing Drugs otherwise known as P.E.D and other banned supplements have been popping up in major news media as top stories than before. Within the last few years one of the major professional athletes to start this trend is Mark McGuire. McGuire sounded the alarm bells in the 1990’s with his seventy home runs in a single season setting a major league baseball record. Even though Mark McGuire was never proven he was only suspected of using anabolic steroids. But in all
10/18/2013
Jason Grannon
“Hey dad”, the second set of scouts are going to be at the National Championship baseball game”. These were the words of a promising athlete who did have a wonderful natural ability for pitching. This athlete could throw a pitch with imaginable great accuracy and even better velocity. Sadly though the athlete was conditioned to think that his natural ability was not good enough. His father and his coaches kept telling him that he needed to be stronger, faster, and get bigger. They said this was the only way he would be able to achieve his dream of playing the big league. With three months before the National championship playoffs this athlete started to use Performance Enhancing Drugs in this case (Anabolic Steroids). Within the first month there was a noticeable gain in his muscle mass. There were also noticeable changes in his attitude and completion. When the day of the Championship game arrived the athlete threw the best game of his life. When the game ended the Committee suspected use of Performance Enhancing drugs so they decided to test the athlete. The results from the drug test were positive for anabolic steroids. The scouts didn’t want to touch this tainted athlete ever again. While performance enhancing drugs can make you stronger, faster, bigger and banned from sports for life.
Today there is a new type of athlete in sports whose natural skill and training are not the only tools used to perform. Performance Enhancing Drugs otherwise known as P.E.D and other banned supplements have been popping up in major news media as top stories than before. Within the last few years one of the major professional athletes to start this trend is Mark McGuire. McGuire sounded the alarm bells in the 1990’s with his seventy home runs in a single season setting a major league baseball record. Even though Mark McGuire was never proven he was only suspected of using anabolic steroids. But in all