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    and it isn’t fair. Performance enhancing drugs shouldn’t be used in sports. Performance enhancing drugs are illegal in pro leagues and college. They also shouldn’t be used because they have severe health risks‚ and it’s better for your body to grow naturally. Performance enhancing drugs are used all the time in the sports. But of all the sports‚ baseball has the most issues with performance enhancing drugs. Pro baseball leagues have found out that these drugs are mostly coming from Latin countries

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    Should Performance-Enhancing Drugs be legalised in Sport? Performance enhancing drugs have been illegal thorughout the Olympics since the International Amateur Athletic Federation banned them in 1928. Although ways of testing and taking illegal perfomance-enhancing drugs have become more effective‚ it is not a new thing and has been around for a long time. In 1992‚ Vicky Rabinowicz interviewed small groups of athletes. She found that Olympic athletes‚ in general‚ believed that most successful athletes

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    Performance enhancing drugs should be eliminated from all sports because they create an unfair competitive advantage. I am against the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs in sports because it is a worldwide problem that takes the integrity out of the game. There are so many people involved from trainers‚ players and coaches. In the past athletes played for love of the game‚ today however‚ the players have so much more at stake then just being able to play the game because they love it. Athletes

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    Barbies have been becoming skinnier with bigger boobs and waists while the G.I. Joe dolls have been becoming more and more muscular. Children that play with these dolls are getting unrealistic body images that they want to obtain. In the article “DrugsSports‚ Body Image and G.I. Joe” written by Natalie Angier‚ she states how these dolls are influencing young people to go to unhealthy extremes to achieve this unrealistic body. Because children play with toys that have unrealistic body images‚ kids go

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    Enhancing Drugs (PEDs). Unfortunately‚ there are many professional athletes who also use these types of drugs in their game. Using these drugs is unfair and unethical. They also cause many negative short-term and long-term effects. I strongly believe that performance-enhancing drugs should be illegal. For instance it is an unfair and unethical way to make yourself better. If an adult takes PEDs it will enable heavy lifting and him will end up tearing muscles and when he go off of the drug he will

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    believe that drugs should NOT be legalised in sport. This is due to pretty much the same reason it isn’t legal now. The main reason that I believe that drugs should not be legalised is that: if drugs should start being legal in sport than what is stopping it from being legal in the world. I think that drugs should not be used at all. There will be no stopping people from using sport as they will just say that they play one sport or another. Furthermore‚ everybody knows that drugs are harmful

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    The use of drugs to enhance performance in sport will not disappear. Athletes go after every competitive opportunity and advantage to be successful at top level. Sports performers enjoy the success in financially and in personal glory. The nature of sports shows a strong desire to win‚ and some athletes will do anything to rise to the top. Every top athlete wants to get an edge somehow over his or her opponents. Many athletes have turned to supplements to gain this edge and the use of drugs has increased

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    Athletes and Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports     Abstract:  Since the beginning of sports competition‚ athletes have always looked for some kind of an edge amongst their competitors.  They will do whatever it takes to be one of the elite and that includes pumping supplements into their bodies to make them bigger‚ stronger‚ and faster.  Steroid use is probably one of the most common drug misuses in sports competition.  Athletes found that with anabolic

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    The use of illegal performance enhancing drugs in sport is a rising problem in professional sports. Drug use is hazardous to the person using them as well as to other people who are dealing with them. There are many reasons athletes choose to take drugs for sports like‚ to be faster‚ stronger‚ or to gain advantage over the opponent. Even though some professional athletes are not using performance-enhancing drugs‚ the fact that they are using drugs whatsoever is a big problem. Athletes are supposed

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