Doping in Sports and the Current Issues for Management

The use of performance enhancing drugs to help athletes perform better is illegal and considered cheating as this drug gives the athlete who may have been an average performer an edge over the competition after the use of these drugs. This is unfair to the other players who are playing a fair game. No matter at what level whether its high school, college or a professional, athletes should not be using drugs to help or boost their performance in any way as it wrong and the athlete is basically cheating his way to the top. No doubt that drugs/HGH may help the player’s vitality and even reduce injury time but the serious side effects of prolonged use is still unknown and is still cheating since it’s not legal as not every player is taking it to make it a fair game.

For many years sports have played huge roles in human’s everyday lives. From entertainment, political, financial and to actually competing in them. The task for the sportsmen or women, especially in the top rank, is to beat the other competitors and get a good result from it. Here there is a high amount of pressure on many athletes coming from the media, coaches, themselves etc. They have the wanting to do well and achieve their goals and aims so much that some of the athletes turn to performance enhancing drugs. Obviously training for competition is the main thing to do but using drugs is another helper to succeeding. So, to their way of thinking, doping does not seem like cheating it just seems like

Performance-Enhancing drugs are an unnatural way of changing one's body, and the effects can be life altering, sometimes better yet always, in the end, much worse. It is for this reason why major league sports have put strict rules in place suspending athletes who use these drugs; the Olympics ban these athletes for life. These drugs harm the bodies and minds of athletes, and they are banned to protect their health for their benefit and for the sports as well.

“Why it’s time to legalize steroids in professional sports” written by Chris Smith of Forbes Magazine argues that to level the playing field of professional sports it would be beneficial to legalize the use of performance enhancing drugs. Mr. Smith’s ideals that professional sports would be a fairer, more entertaining version of itself if performance enhancing drugs were legal, is an incredibly irresponsible and impudent declaration.

Athletes use performance enhancing drugs to boost their game. The professionals who use these drugs are ruining the integrity of the game. Many people don’t understand why professional athletes would go to such extreme measures to be better when they have already proven themselves. Athletes are just taking away from their natural ability by using these dangerous drugs. The risk of using performance enhancing drugs is a lot greater than the reward, because an athlete’s reputation could be tarnished and their career ruined. Money is one of the major reasons why players use them; if they perform at levels higher than what their natural abilities could do they will be offered a large sum of money.

Doping in sports has caused a lot of controversy throughout the years in the sports world from youth sports to the professionals. The World Anti-Doping Agency does their best to catch all the drug users but falls short with some people. This causes for an “unfair” advantage and goes against the true value of sport. It can make these players stronger and more athletic which causes more excitement for the fans to watch, more revenue for teams, and growing popularity. Using performance-enhancing drugs is banned in almost every sport, but with the allowed use of them could bring to the players and the sports teams themselves, could outweigh the negative effects of them being used in sports.

Nobody would argue that the quality of sports is basically dependent upon the level of skill of its players. As the skills of the players improve, so too does the quality of the game. So why are substances that would further athletes’ skills beyond human levels so ostracized? Doping is the practice of using steroids and other illegal substances to boost performance in sports and athletics. The debate of the morality of such substances has been going on for decades and continues to affect the world of sports in many ways. At the moment, steroids and all other performance-enhancing drugs are banned in their entirety from nearly all sports in most countries of the world. Scandalous lawsuits involving athletes abusing substances are constantly popping up, usually involving players and athletes that were considered fan-favorites or even heroes. Performance-enhancing drugs should be allowed in sports because it would make it easier to control them, allow athletes to perform better, and widespread use of steroids would allow more solid research and advancements in the pharmaceutical field.

Someone once said " If you are not cheating, then you are not trying hard enough". Many athelete wants to do better and therefore, they use steroids. Performance of enhancing drugs should be legal because it helps to boost up energy which helps athelete to play for a long period of time without getting tired. Some may argue that taking steroids lower the muscles strength and increases blood pressure but, I disagree. Steroids helps to increse the bodys ability to utlize protein, it allows athlete to train harder and anabolic steroids are anti-inflammatories and have a effect on repairing injuries. It's not wrong to cheat, if you are cheating for a good reason.

Besides the long list of negative side effects that steroids bring, they also ruin the integrity of sports. Sports are all about working hard and striving through adversity in order to reach a goal. Steroids only give athletes a shortcut that is an easy way out to reaching that goal. Before performance enhancing drugs became a world wide phenomenon athletes were forced to use their only option of working out naturally and pushing themselves beyond their limits in order to be the best that they can be. Now a day’s, many athletes do not have the same dedication and work ethic to earn their results the old fashion and natural way. Whether or not the use of performance enhancing drugs should be allowed in sports should depend on the purpose and intentions of their use.

There are those that also point out that steroid’s and performance enhancement drugs are not the only kids of enhancement methods. One of these methods, “such as taking up temporary residence at a very high altitude in order to increase one’s read blood corpuscles, tremble on the edge between tolerated and reprobated methods of improving one’s athletic performance” (Posner). Though not a drug, this describes someone still gaining an unfair advantage over the competition, which is why this is frowned upon, although not as seriously as steroids or drugs. Others also seek to separate sports and real life, meaning that different rules apply. “Some argue for a ‘bracketed morality’ within sports. This

It’s crazy, why people think that it's okay to use performance enhancing drugs (PEDS) . It gives the most unfair advantage in sports such as Increased leanness and muscle definition, Increased muscle mass, General weight gain, Increased strength, Increased effectiveness of training, Improved recovery rate Euphoria (feelings of positivity and confidence), and Increased aggressiveness. This is why I think PEDS do not belong in professional sports.

In the world of sports the competition is crazy. Players will do absolutely anything to win including cheating their way to the top like using performance enhancing drugs. Also known as doping in sports which is the use of banned performance enhancing drugs. It is considered unethical by most international sport organizations. There are five different types of doping classes, such as banned drugs the most common two being stimulants and hormones. Stimulants are used to make the athlete more alert and mask fatigue. Anabolic agent-steroids help the athletes to train harder and build muscles. Diuretics remove fluid from the body that are used to hide other drug use. Narcotic analgesics which mask pain caused by injury. Pesticides and hormones Including EPO which are red blood cells that give more energy and HGH which builds muscles. Although these drugs enhance the users performance it also has a high amount of health risks. Leading to heart failures, strokes or other heart problems. Increased aggression and kidney damage, severe dehydration, abnormal growth and

Is it okay to use performance enhancing drugs in sport? Some people would agree because they would say that taking enhancing drugs improves athletes’ performance which makes the sport more interesting. The more interesting the sport, the more fans are gained. Most athletes say they dope because everyone else is doing it and they need to do it if they still want to be the best. However, if doping could be put to an end altogether then everyone would have an equal chance at being the best and the winner would be the one who worked the hardest instead of who found the best drugs to use. Doping has diminished the value of sportsmanship.

Doping has widely become known as the use of banned substances and practices by sports personnel particularly athletes in an attempt to improve sporting performances. No sensible fan of sport today denies the prevalence of drugs in virtually every major sport, yet none would argue they can ever be eliminated completely. Money alone would seem to guarantee that much. High profile athletes today are competing for 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

In J. Savulescu, B.Foddy and M.Clayton’s “Why We Should Allow Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports” (published 2004), we see their view on how performance enhancing drugs can make the sporting world a better and a much more equitable field to play in. They imply that, because of our current technological advancements, it has become easier to use performance enhancing drugs without feeling the severe side effects they used to cause. The author’s also suggest that since the punishment is just a meager six months to a year ban, while players are still being given an opportunity to earn millions in the future, banning performance enhancing drugs is a waste of time. Overall, they imply that Doping should be an action that should be embraced