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    Performance Enhancing Drugs...Should They Be Legal Or Stay Illegal? Find Out Now!! A handful of athletes use performance enhancing drugs. But are those good for you and is the benefit really worth it? I believe that performance enhancing drugs should all stay illegal in sports of any kind. First of all‚ it gives the athletes that use them a higher muscular endurance and a higher muscular strength than any athlete that doesn’t use them. The greeks and romans used to eat herbs that would

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    Anthony Carby Annotated Bibliography Baseball is one of the oldest professional sports in the United States that is still heavily played and viewed by spectators. NBC sports conducted a survey to find out the number of people who watch baseball yearly. They found baseball is in second place behind football with 1.01 billion people watching MLB games annually. Baseball has always been my number one love in the sports world. In my lifetime‚ there have been many changes to the game. Today‚ one of the

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    athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs? There are many factors associated with why performance-enhancing drugs shouldn’t be used in sports one of the main association is health risks. Performance-enhancing drugs should not be used in the sport because as they use the enhancing drug they are destroying the sport fair play and roll models in other people’s eyes. Enhancing your body with drugs may lead up to overdosing or illnesses however If everybody took these performance-enhancing drugs everyone

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    Research Paper Performance Enhancing Drugs Maximilian H. Szeto Vancouver Island University November 26‚ 2014 Instructor: Richard Arnold Engl 125: Research Paper Performance Enhancing Drugs These days‚ it seems like performance enhancing drugs are the norm in the professional sports worlds. Whether it is football or basketball players‚ many professional athletes are getting exposed to PEDs. As a result‚ a lot of athletes are consuming performance enhancing drugs because athletes

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    ENC 1102 Ms. Politte February 27‚ 2014 Risk vs. Reward: Using Performance-Enhancing Drugs The steroids era in not only Major League Baseball‚ but in all professional sports really began in the early 1990s. In MLB‚ the commissioner‚ Byron Johnson‚ turned a blind eye to the players who were using PED’s because he wanted to draw fans back to the stands to see more homeruns. This worked for a while and then the use became illegal. Then MLB started testing their players in the early 2000s because

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    cheating scandals‚ professional sports can be added to that list. I disagree with the opinion expressed by Stephen Dubner in the New York Times article‚ Is Cheating Good For Sports? Although Dubner presents his reader with a question‚ as you read his article‚ it becomes clear that he believes the American public enjoys the prospect of detecting cheating‚ almost as much as they enjoy the actual game. Dubner refers to it as a detective element within the game. I can see why Dubner might be inclined to

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    Consider if steroids were legal‚ how much more exciting sports would be and t would be fair to everyone. Why: As an athlete and competing in a high level sport‚ I easily understand athletes and their reasons for doping in sports. At a high level you’re always striving to be the best you can be ad better than your opponents to win. Also‚ as a candidate for the Provincial and National Team for Canada I have experience in knowing what you need to know and expect while participating in these events

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    Drugs in Sport The use of drugs in sports goes back a long-long time‚ in fact back to the original Olympics held from 776 to 393 BC. Old texts suggest that humans were always trying to find ways to do more work with less effort (work hard but suffer less). This caused them to find‚ invent & use drugs or supplements. Thus people began using drugs & performance enhancers. Doping is the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport‚ it is illegal‚ but the use of drugs completely isn’t. That

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    Sport is so much a part of daily life for so many Australians. An Australian child is brought up to idolise their sporting heroes and to pursue the sport itself. It is devastating to think that maybe our sporting heroes are cheats. Today students are being pressured to perform at higher levels to make the first team‚ representative side or a sporting scholarship at a Greater Public Schools (GPS) which then could lead to the opportunity to make a break into the professional sporting teams. With the

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    Should athletes use performance enhancing drugs ? Man has been trying to improve themselves physically through training and eating healthy for years but the discovery of performance enhancing drugs changed the game for everyone. One after another new ways of improving an athlete’s straight and injuries with minimal training and maximal improvement. Some athletes and trainers looked to drugs to give them the upper hand on their opposition. Some people look at using drugs to build bigger and better

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