Taking PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs) are a big temptation in an athlete’s life. Taking PEDs is considered cheating for sports and could have severe consequences. But just like cheating in school‚ some people will think it is okay to do it and they don’t care if they do it and get caught or not. Taking PEDs is also known as doping. Doping originated by a Nazi doctor to make them more aggressive in the battlefield( Jacobson ) . Usually‚ athletes are taking PEDs to help their performance for whatever
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into the different substances athletes have used and how many performance enhancing drugs are available to use. I decided to look at this because the website title intrigued me and when I saw the list of performance enhancing drugs‚ I knew that this would help significantly to show what athletes use. This is important to me so that it will support why are why not athletes should use drugs by showing what kinds of performance enhancing drugs are available. In the source it states “The International Olympic
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Performance enhancing drugs should not be legalized ‘Olympic track star Marion Jones was sentenced in a federal court to six months in prison.’ (Kelly and Rao‚ 2008) The reason why Jones was guilty is because of the use of performance enhancing drugs since 1999. More and more famous athletes prove to have used banned drugs to enhance their performance. At the same time‚ the role that the anti-doping agency is more and more important in the world wide games‚ such as Olympic Game‚ Tour de France
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public domain as to whether sporting codes should permit the use of performance enhancements. Sporting codes should legalize and regulate the use of performance enhancement drugs in professional sports‚ as they have become the biggest scourge of professional sports leagues. Legalizing and regulating performance enhancements would not only create a state of equilibrium between players‚ but the factors that make a sporting performance more enjoyable for the audience include many that can be enhanced
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Powell 7 April 2017 Performance-Enhancing Drugs Today when people hear the words Performance-Enhancing Drugs they automatically think of athletes and how it will make them a better player. However‚ using drugs to make an athlete better is extremely unhealthy. When players use these drugs they get a power they never had before. They feel like a completely new player that has the skill and strength to do anything they want to while playing their sport. When they are using these drugs they are not thinking
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through ways such as the use of performance enhancing drugs can harm the integrity of the game. Since the 1960’s athletes have been using drugs to enhance their abilities. In the past fifteen years‚ the number of known athletes using these performance enhancing drugs has increased considerably. Two of the top athletes in their respective games‚ Lance Armstrong and Maria Sharapova‚ have revealed that during their career they each used performance enhancing drugs. This brings to question their
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getting stronger‚ faster‚ and ultimately genetically kore advanced it gets hard for anyone in specific to really stand out and compete. To achieve these goals many athletes will take extreme measures and turn to performance enhancing drugs such as steroids. The use of performance enhancing drugs is becoming more and more popular among athletes‚ many of them don’t
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Performance enhancing drugs have a big impact on professional sports. The United States should allow the use of these drugs to allow athletes to compete at a higher level for a longer amount of time. Should Performance enhancing drugs be allowed in professional sports? Performance enhancing drugs are a big topic is the professional sports world today. Many people say that performance enhancing drugs are a terrible object to have in our professional sports system‚ but there are some good or even
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athletes use performance enhancing drugs‚ it gives them an unfair advantage‚ and it ruins the spirit of competition. Imagine the athlete that has been dreaming of playing collegiately or even advancing so far as to go to the Olympics and win a medal. This athlete may do whatever it takes to achieve their childhood dreams. “Most serious athletes will tell you that the competitive drive to win can be fierce”(Mayo Clinic Staff 1) and because of that “the use of performance-enhancing drugs has become
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use of performance enhancing substances be accepted for athletic use? While the opposition will argue for the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) by athletes‚ use of these substances must be banned from competition because it damages the honesty of athletic competition‚ provides an unfair advantage to athletes who train clean‚ and can have numerous detrimental effects to the user. Ultimately‚ it is imperative that stricter limits are put on athletes which bans the use of performance enhancing
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