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    Steroids have been a huge part of sports for the last 50 years. Since its creation in 1935‚ by zoologist and physiologist Arnold Adolph Berthold and Dr. Leopold Ruzicka‚ steroids have been advancing athlete’s physical performance. When people hear the word Steroids‚ the automatic response is always negative. As well as illegal‚ steroids are still being used even with all the restrictions and that it is banned. Coupled with words like juicing‚ freak‚ meathead‚ and monster is used to describe people

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    “Big Game” against Stanford‚ and before Stephen Curry made a record-breaking number of three pointers in one basketball game‚ sports was primarily based on natural abilities. Today‚ sports has evolved to elevate the level of play and performance. Major competitions such as the Olympics 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

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    Persuasive Speech: Steroids What is the first thing that goes through your head when you think of steroids? Barry Bonds‚ Mark McGwire‚ or Greg Valentino? Maybe “cheating” comes to mind. You might think of the hideous backne or the infamous “roid rage” that comes along with steroid use. Steroids have always been given a bad reputation as a “dangerous” and “unfair” drug because every couple of years a famous and successful athlete gets caught using them and the media butchers steroids’ reputation.

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    Sawyer Schafer English III 2 January 2013 Doping in Sports: “Is it that bad?” Sports and competition have always been‚ are and always will be greatly emphasized in the world. Competitions have provided not only entertainment but a way of life for people for decades. History shows that sports have been played ever since the earliest days when ancient greece had olympic games. |Those games were a large part of their entire existence. |Not

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    interested in body piercing while their parents don’t agree with them. On the other hand‚ using steroids is common among athletes and young people who want to increase their muscle size or reduce their body fat. Although getting body piercing and using steroids have become popular activities in modern society‚ they can both be very dangerous. There are different reasons why young people take steroids or pierce their bodies. Recently‚ piercings of the lip‚ tongue‚ nose‚ ear‚ navel‚ and nipple are

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    Steroids Steroids became an option to athletes in the Olympics and other major sporting events during the 1950’s. But this use of steroids among athletes only became widely apparent when Canadian sprint runner Ben Johnson tested positive for steroid use after winning the gold medal for the one hundred-meter dash during the 1988 Olympics . Now a skinny fifteen-year-old can just walk down to the local gym and find people who either sell or know how to get in contact with those who sell the drug

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    Spring Research Paper In sports‚ athletes will do whatever it takes to gain the slight improvement over the competition. Unfortunately‚ many athletes unfortunately turn to PEDs‚ or Performance Enhancing Drugs‚ such as anabolic steroids or tetrahydrogestrinone. These energy level boosters are banned by most sports organization. Over the past 48 years‚ 64 Olympic athletes have lost their medals due to the use of banned substances. Over time‚ certain countries have had more athletes banned than others

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    Jim Charpentier English 15 Argumentative Essay Steroids in the World of Sports                 During the 1930s‚ scientists discovered that anabolic steroids could help the growth of muscle in laboratory animals‚ which led to abuse of these drugs by bodybuilders and weightlifters and then by athletes in other sports.  Ever since the beginning of sports there has been different techniques used in order to gain an edge over opponents.  The question that has been most frequently asked is‚ which

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    enhancing drug use. He compared the harsh pressure that is forced upon athletes to his own experience in high school that led him to try illegal substances. He stated “I did what I felt was needed to do‚ to accomplish what was demanded of me” (Moller 547). Moller later goes on to ultimately place blame on the fans by placing Rodriguez and other athletes on a pedestal‚ and viewing them in a god like manner by saying “What it really comes down to is that the reason Alex did steroids is you and me”(Moller

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    suspended or banned from the sport you loved doing. Athletes need to step up the A game to be honest. It doesn’t matter if you win or lose‚ the only thing that does matter is

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