The most critical part of playing a sport is being healthy. However‚ many athletes choose to use an unhealthy drug‚ called Anabolic Steroids. Anabolic Steroids increase testosterone production in the body and can lead to increased muscle mass and more masculine physical characteristics. Most athletes use them knowing that the drug could terminate their career and cause them bodily harm. Good coaches would warn their players about the use of performance enhancing drugs. Bans on illegal drugs in sports
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American public enjoys‚ or condones cheating of any sort. Cheating taints the game and creates distractions that ultimately hurt the popularity and integrity of professional sports. There have been cheating controversies in most sports lately. Steroid usage is a widespread problem. This form of “cheating” has left a generation of parents cautioning their children about idolizing sports stars as good role models. I think this hurts the game. Shouldn’t sports be about sacrifice‚ dedication and promoting
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Many people‚ even professional athletes and super models‚ want to improve something about their bodies. Whether it is steroids or weight loss supplements‚ drug dealers and drug companies all claim to have the answer to happiness through products that claim to improve our bodies. But they never tell you about the price that you can pay: the cancers‚ depression‚ liver damage‚ acne‚ balding‚ or anger that can result. Happiness and athletic success don’t come from a pill or a needle; they come from hard
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Steroids and the athlete For the past few years‚ it has been all over the media; athletes on steroids and how it should be dealt with (Rutherford). But as sports-fan and as a society in general‚ we can be hypocrites at best. We like to see collegiate or Olympic athletes break long standing records‚ being in the 100 meters dash‚ the high jump‚ or in swimming‚ but when it is done and over with and later we find out that it was done with the help of anabolic steroids‚ we want to crucify them. Steroids
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baseball‚ performance enhancing drugs are used illegally. A person using steroids is able to recover from a workout and build muscle two to three times faster than a person who is completely natural (Ali). Athletes are illegally using these drugs because physically‚ they are able to make incredible improvements in speed‚ strength and endurance (Ali). Professional sports have outlawed these drugs because there is an unfair advantage over the rest of the field. Serious punishments are handed out to
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The effects of steroid use has been widely documented‚ especially in the past couple of years with all the high profiled athletes subjecting themselves to a tainted legacy because of the need to keep there competive edge while there skills where slowly diminishing with age. Sending shock waves through the sports world and fans feeling disappointed and confused‚ athletes have been slowly coming out in the public eye for their past and current steroid abuse. These athletes have been emotionally distressed
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that gave them an unfair advantage. Well that is exactly what anabolic steroids do for an athlete. Ethos & Audience Adaptation - I have looked into many different ideas and insights into anabolic steroids‚ and I am here to tell you a little bit about them. Preview - The three main points I will be discussing today will be the use of anabolic steroids in sports‚ and the effects and problems associated with steroids. But firstly I will tell you tell you what anabolic steroids are‚ and the reasons
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In the novel‚ The Hunchback of Notre Dame‚ Victor Hugo talks about how the hunchbacks trial is unfair and about Quasimodo’s punishment is for kidnapping La Esmeralda. Quasimodo is deaf and so is the judge so neither of them know when they are being talked to. Once Quasimodo is being interrogated‚ he starts to answer questions that have been asked previously while the judge is asking new questions. The audience is laughing so the judge assumes he is being rude and sends him to the pillory for an
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Steroids are a form of performance enhancing drugs that are banned through out the sporting world and illegal in most countries. They have been used since Ancient Greece but the present form came into being in the 1930’s. They have a similar effect in the body as that of testosterones. The steroids can be taken in 4 ways. There are Oral Pills‚ Skin Patches‚ Injectable Steroids and creams/gels to apply on the area. Medical - Although they are meant to be used as medical treatments for cancer and
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“I’ve never felt overmatched on the baseball field.” This quote was said by Alex Rodriguez. Alex Rodriguez had unbelievable stats that would have put out him in a definite spot in the hall of fame‚ but because of the use of steroids‚ his dreams of becoming a Major League Baseball hall of famer are shattered (“overshadowed”). Alex Rodriguez used performance enhancing drugs‚ which help improve their running speed‚ strength‚ and skill (“Doping”). Athletes are pressured into taking these drugs in many
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