Sports is one of America’s best past times for gatherings and entertainment. Society likes to believe that athletes are perfect in every way‚ until a 1‚000 page report is published proving that the athlete did indeed cheat during all seven rides for the Tour they won. Lance Armstrong has been a topic of corruption in the sports community since 2012. While he did all he could to terminate rumors‚ he finally admitted to cheating in the famous Oprah interview done in 2013. Immense repercussions would
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extremes is the usage of anabolic steroids. Anabolic steroids can cause long-term harm to a body. Although they may make you look like a physical specimen‚ anabolic steroids are worse for your health. Anabolic steroid use is increasing rapidly all around the world. Most consumers are unaware of the consequences from consuming them‚ and are more focused on the appearance it creates. In the book Steroid Use and Abuse‚ the author Paul Roberts states‚ “Anabolic steroid abuse has been associated with a
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high stakes‚ not just millions‚ but dozens of millions. The fear of losing everything career‚ opportunity‚ contracts‚ name‚ fame‚ and money is pushing more sportsmen all over the world to use performance enhancing drugs‚ mainly anabolic-androgenic steroids‚ to either gain a competitive advantage‚ or to simply keep pace with other athletes using performance enhancers. The primary reason why PED’s are outlawed in professional sports is that they give users a perceived unfair advantage over the rest of
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instance‚ a person not taking PEDs may not be able to fairly keep up with someone using PEDs. When people go to a recreational area it is to have fun. No one is having fun when there is that one player (think of basketball) that is using some sort of steroid to boost his or hers own performance to the point where they are elevated beyond everyone else on the court. In addition‚ players with skill do not have a chance to use their skill on a level playing field. It is unfair to those with the skill to
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What if people used performance enhancing drugs in sports? Are there any side effects from using PEDs? Should professional athletes use them? What if I use them just to be a little better in sports? Many people would argue that legalizing performance enhancing drugs will make professional and recreational sports better. They think sports as a whole will be raised to the next level of entertainment. Despite this belief‚ sports can only be brought down from the use of these drugs; if an athlete has
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Drug Use in Sports (Editorial sports) The use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) has always been a controversial topic in sports. It is considered illegal because those drugs give athletes some sort of super powers that make them perform better over others. Athletes who will be caught drug cheating will face penalties or a ban once caught. But it seems that those punishments don’t threaten drug cheaters because the number of athletes who use those drug is still the same or higher. But have they
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be able to play as long. Drugs can be good in sports for helping players when they get hurt or when they are injured but people aren’t honest if they allowed drugs there would be a lot of cheating. Drugs hurt athletes so they can’t play as long. Steroids have resulted in the arrest of 90 people and 16 seizures. Drugs can make people get addicted and act crazy. People that are on drugs can also get hurt really bad if they misuse the drug they can even get killed. Erythropoietin use among competitive
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that rate has gone extremely low because of how much is at stake. Especially for their personal lives including providing for their families and jobs. If they lose their job they would be letting down millions of fans. In addition‚ “Athletes using steroid
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Lauren Long English 1020 Mrs. 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
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It always raises an eye when an average athlete suddenly becomes the fastest or the strongest in their sport; in many cases they have stopped depending on talent and now rely on a performance- enhancing drug for success. Substance abuse in sports is shown to be common because of their benefits‚ various scandals in the media‚ and new polices companies have now had to implement. The act of "doping" or the use of an enhancing-drug has become a social norm though out all sports. There is a drive
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