Essay On Performance Enhancing Drugs In Sports

An article dated in 2004 by ESPN gives an example of how tragic steroids can be to a sport. "The 1996 National League MVP (Ken Caminiti), who later admitted using steroids during his major league career and for years battled a drug problem, died (of a heart attack) at the age of 41" (ESPN). Although Caminiti battled many demons that included additional drug abuse besides steroids, it is still troubling to think that a professional athlete can have his life taken away at a relatively young age. Also unfortunate is the fact that Caminiti appeared to be cleaning his

Performance Enhancing Drugs: various substances made to give athletes an advantage on their athletic performance skills. Many student athletes all over the country face the pressure of performing well from their parents, coaches, teammates, colleges etc. Some have now even turned to performance enhancing drugs. These drugs give athletes an advantage to perform better without having to train as hard. Though, there are some serious side effects of using these drugs, and let's be honest is it really that fair? Professional athletes and even olympic athletes are drug tested, so why aren't student athletes being tested?

When it comes to performance enhancing drugs, I would draw the line on what was considered illegal. They are illegal for a reason, and some performance enhancing drugs give players a clear advantage. A lineman in the NFL taking steroids would clearly benefit in an increase in strength and agility. It would be a crime to see all drugs in sports considered legal. I think it would be a detriment to society and would not send the right message to young people on how to achieve their goals. Young people would see athletes in professional sports and would be looking up to someone who no longer worked hard to get to their position, but just look drugs to reach their goals, what kind of message does that send. For years, at least to my knowledge, many

Athletes work hard for years to achieve their goals and dreams. Some athletes use performance-enhancing drugs to skip the hard work that natural athlete did. It works the same way for academics’ life, some researchers steal ideas or even complete work from other scholars and claim it as theirs. This is called cheating because they are not putting the effort that it takes to achieve the goal. The competition between athletes or even academics become dishonest because they did not put equal effort. In my opinion, if the drugs get legalized there should be two competition for each sport, one for people who do not use drugs and one for who uses the drugs.

Professional athletes today are under such competitive pressure that they can resort to drugs. Competitive sports can be a cause for an exceeding amount of pressure that can cause good, talented people turn to drugs. This is a problem because drugs can ruin careers, lead to addiction and eventual death from overdoses. Even child athletes have turned to drugs.

The use of performance enhancing drugs in sports (doping) is done to improve athletic performance. Doping in sports has become a highly controversial topic among professional sporting venues and in the media. With the increased pressure to perform, high priced contracts, increased competition, and advanced training methods today’s athletes will try to gain an edge by any means necessary. Performance enhancing drugs used by athletes today include Human Growth Hormone (HGH), anabolic steroids, peptide hormones, amphetamines, insulin and stimulants. The reason athletes use performance enhancing drugs is to increase the amount of testosterone produced in the body. The increased testosterone in the body increases muscle strength by enabling new

In New Zealand, this year the laws surrounding drugs in sport have been updated so that they are now at the same standard of those of the World Anti-Doping Agency's 2015 world anti-doping code. This meant increasing the penalty of those caught using performance enhancing drugs from a 2 year ban to 4 years for first time offenders. This means that an athlete that is caught using drugs at the Olympics, they will miss the next one. The laws have also been changed so that all supporting staff/team members of the athlete are subject to these laws as well and therefore they can receive banes as well. They also extended the consequences to anyone who tries to cover up any doping that is occurring. These law changes were set in place to

Performance enhancing drugs should not be legalized. These drugs can cause great harm to the body mentally and physically. It also ruins the trill of the sport by cheating and from the professional athletes, that have used the drugs, that are the younger generations role models, influence them to do whatever it takes despite the consequences because the professionals are. Parents are concerned with the message that athletes who use PEDs send to their children. This message teaches them that cheating is OK and is almost necessary if you want to be the

Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, performance enhancing drugs have become a religious practice in “the lives of some sport figures.” The use of these supplements have given the user an edge, an edge to perform at maximum capability. Most major athletes all agree on the fact that the competitive drive to win can be quite intense. Besides the satisfaction of personal accomplishment, athletes commonly pursue high hopes of attaining a medal, a college scholarship or the once in a lifetime opportunity to play on a professional team. In such an environment, the use of performance-enhancing drugs has become increasingly common (Athletes & Drug Use). For most athletes, winning at all costs includes taking performance-enhancing drugs. The

According to the UK anti doping website “www UKad .org.uk “ the taking of illegal substances so as to improve performance can be very harmful on an athlete’s health as it may have short term and long term effects . the campaign against the taking of illegal drug in sports started when a Danish cyclist died during the Rome Olympic Games in 1960. The IOC settle a medical commission which main objective was to find a method to fight the abuse of drugs in Olympic Sports. The Medical and scientific commission role is to protect the clean athletes the protection of the health of the athletes laying emphasis on the fight against injuries , illnesses and so supporting the health

Sports is all about fun and talent, there should not be a reason to take the game to a degrading level, show good sportsmanship by not cheating.It is good to show younger generations a proper example to follow. Although these drugs are becoming easier to access does not mean they should be bought, but it is a good idea to stay clear of them in case any symptoms begin to reveal themselves. It is great to just show the world actual skill, than to do some pills and ruin the whole career and the future that is

“I started taking anabolic steroids in 1969 and never stopped. It was addicting, mentally addicting. Now I'm sick, and I'm scared. Ninety percent of the athletes I know are on the stuff. We're not born to be 300 lbs or jump 30ft. But all the time I was taking steroids, I knew they were making me play better.” Lyle Alzado, American footballer. This is just one of many athletes who have took performance enhancing drugs in the past and have lived to regret it.

The Tour de France is considered the world’s most competitive bicycle race. Each summer top cycling teams from around the world compete in the three-week event, which sends riders on a grueling, multi-stage course through the mountainous countryside of Ireland, France, and Belgium. In 1998, the image of Tour de France cyclists as athletes at the peak of their natural abilities was tarnished by allegations of widespread performanceenhancing drug use among competitors. The “doping” scandal broke a few days prior to the start of the race when a masseuse for France’s Festina team, Willy Voet, was arrested after police found large quantities of anabolic steroids and erythropoietin, or EPO, in his car

If athletes take performance enhancing drugs it damages the future of sport. Children will begin to believe that this is risk free since their heroes are doing it. If we legalise the practice of drugs participation in sports will take a heavy hit, as parents will take their children out of the sporting system just so they don’t run any risks of side effects, which will ultimately lead to the death of sport.

One of the biggest debates in sports in recent history is whether or not to allow performance enhancing drugs in sports. What pops into many people’s minds when they hear performancing enhancing drugs is steroids, which is a PED, but there are many more performance enhancing substances. There are many people that believe that performance enhancing drugs should remain banned in sports and those who are caught using any banned substances should be disciplined accordingly. However, some people think that it should be okay for athletes to use performance enhancing drugs to have better athletes and, as the name states, enhance the athlete’s performance. In every professional sport, athletes are tested randomly for these performance enhancing drugs, as well as other banned substances. Performance enhancing drugs have been a source of conflict in sports for years, and I think they will continue to be an issue no matter how much people try to crack down, and eliminate them.