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    controversial issue in the world today‚ especially when it comes to athletes and people involved in it. These drugs are commonly known as PEDs (performance enhancing drugs) and people who use these drugs to enhance their performance consider it legitimate as it helps in improving their concentration level. Today’s athletes continue to push the boundaries of distinction in performance and physical fitness. PEDs have been a go to source for these athletes‚ with more refined training methods and technologies. However

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    The use of steroids in sports Corey Nalley GE 117 July 21‚ 2010 Mr. Ryan | The use of steroids in sports Everyone watches sports. Even the Romans used sports to see who the best was. The only difference then it was more one on one. Sports today are more on what team is better rather than what player is better. The use of steroids has forever changed the face of professional sports‚ making it a world fueled by drug contacts instead of skill and talent. Steroids have been a very common

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    manifest the most dominant world athletes. The winners are deemed the best in their sport for their abilities to be biologically and physically gifted and to harness that potentiality. These athletes train strenuously‚ often ingesting synthetic or natural additives to increase performance. To remain competitive in increasingly higher levels of play‚ athletes should have the choice of using their natural gifts and/or using performance enhancing drugs. Neither an athlete who has a gene that prompts a

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    wondered why athletes cannot use performance enhancing drugs? Well how would you like it if you worked your whole life to win something and someone that used performance enhancing drugs took that from you? Performance enhancing drugs can be very dangerous to your body and can give you a lot of different side effects that can kill you. “There are many types of performance enhancing drugs that athletes use‚ but the type used the most is Anabolic Steroids”(Wang Stephen). These Anabolic Steroids were “Invented

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    argument is that many athletes use these substances because in professionalism‚ it is very difficult to have consistency every day since having so little rest‚ the body gets tired and the performance of that player can go down considerably and to avoid this‚ the player begins to use these substances to improve his performance and to be able to withstand the trainings and play better in every game. Athletes may have several reasons for using performance-enhancing drugs. An athlete may want to: build

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    people live in a world‚ where competition did not exist . People would live in an ancient-like society‚ low-technology level‚ and laziness would be the theme of this world‚ because improvement would be unnecessary. No matter what professions they are‚ athletes or politicians‚ people would not be better since they have no competitors. However‚ competitive instinct exists in humanity‚ and people can achieve their dream in sports competition‚ people practice and compete to push each other to be better‚ to

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    Knox English IIII 12 November 2015 Use of Steroids in Sports There’s lot of stories about professional athletes using enhancing performance drugs. Lot of athletes use drugs for their performance in the past and some athlete still use it now days. Drugs are usually turn to steroids‚ there are several types of steroids like anabolic steroids or corticosteroids‚ they are in same groups. Corticosteroids‚ cortisone or prednisone are drugs that

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    The Alternative to Steroid Use for High School Athletes Sam was just a normal kid who loved to play basketball. He did pretty well in junior high and made the high school team later on. He was excited to play and loved working out with the team. His coach introduced each of the players to steroids to help them get an edge in working out. Sam and a friend on the team were the only two that would not take these dangerous supplements. As a result the other kids became stronger and faster and Sam found

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    American sports. In some cases‚ professional athletes use steroids. Barry Bonds‚ a Major League Baseball (MLB) player‚ admitted that he used steroids while playing in the MLB. Steeper penalties should be implemented in professional sports leagues for those who use performance enhancing drugs‚ because they give athletes an unfair advantage. What does PED stand for? PED means “performance enhancing drugs” that athletes can use to get better. Most steroids are injected into the muscle‚ although some

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    Introduction: The issue I have chosen to analyse is the use of self-enhancing drugs such as steroids‚ in all areas of sport. Drugs are an issue in every sport as they give the person taking the drug an advantage over the other players. It also affects their health. It also influences teenagers to take drugs as they believe that is a good thing to do. Analysis: Drugs have a very bad impact on society as people believe it is ok to take drugs because someone from their favourite football team took drugs

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