Should Athletes Be Stripped Of Their Titles And Medals For Using Sports Enhancing Drugs?

In sports, the competitive drive to win can be very intensive between athletes. Winning in the game usually brings rewards to athletes both financially and psychologically. Such temptations and the consecutive pressures faced by athletes to excel in the sporting events, attempts to achieve a rival edge especially when the application of performance enhancing drugs by athletes in sports activities has becoming a new trend and relatively common. Performance enhancing drugs are used so athletes could achieve better results with least efforts, even as their health and their athletic careers will be placed in danger. That explains why athletes, sports people and body builders turn to performanc enhancing drugs.

Taking Performance Enhancing Drugs makes the athletes phony and doesn’t show true skill and talent. Rather it shows that the athletes taking them don’t believe in themselves and need to have that extra boost in order to show the sporting world what they are “truly” capable of. PEDs should be banned from sports with a no tolerance policy. The consequences should be stricter and the athlete should be banned from the sport for life so that there will be less athletes to take the PEDs for years to

“Commentators claim that performance-enhancing drugs are not right or wrong, simply another strategy to improve performance” (Introduction to Performance-Enhancing Drugs). There are two main problems wrong with the use of drugs being legal. Health of athletes would drop devastatingly, and the true competition would become who gets lucky. “Some mourn the loss of yesterday's baseball heroes, while others argue that sport figures who use performance-enhancing drugs expose flaws in American culture” (Introduction to Performance-Enhancing

Let us take a moment to understand we are all human beings capable of making mistakes, so the answer to the first question should athletes who are caught using PEDs be allowed to return to sports? Absolutely! Maybe not the same organization, team, etc. but to permanently ban someone from a specific sport is hasty. However, there are exclusions for every rule and if he/she becomes a threat to the league as a whole or a repeat offender, then that is when it should be put up for consideration. I do feel it is each respective league’s obligation to provide every possible plan / program to aid their athlete. For example, WWE (Wolrd Wrestling Entertainment) has a strict wellness policy with a three strike rule. Upon the first strike suspension occurs, but they also provide rehabilitation program for their entertainers. Third strike the employee is terminated, but then again the company still makes sure the ex-employee is provided with further rehabilitation efforts for free. Professional sports are a job, so it should be treated as such. Every employee is subjected to his/her employer’s rules. If an employee at McDonald’s takes Adderall (because it makes him more efficient at the drive through window) and pops on his drug screen, he may not be able to work at McDonalds, but he is not banned from the fast food industry all together – he could work at Wendy’s, Sonic, etc. Maybe a stretch of an example – I am basically saying – people make mistakes, especially when pressure is put

“…medical researchers believe that between 1 and 3 million youths and adults have taken anabolic steroids in one form or another specifically to enhance their looks or athletic performances,” stated Nuwer (Nuwer, 61). As astounding as these figures are, the number of performance drug users is steadily increasing. With this progressively increasing numbers, it is projected that millions more will use steroids in the immediate future (Newer, 61). Athletes have always sought an advantage in competition even if ignoring the law and their health if necessary. Using drugs of any sort to facilitate an athlete’s athletic ability should be illegal. The use of performance enhancing drugs is not only detrimental to the user but it also creates an

The use of Performance Enhancing Drugs(PED) has a major impact on athletes negatively and cause many problems in sports and competitions. These PEDs should be banned for athletes and competitors on any level because they are, unhealthy and harmful to the body, give users an edge over competitors, and it diminishes the true sportsmanship of the game itself.

In the brutal, competitive world of sports and athletics where athletes are expected to be perfect and perform at the highest level, there is a copious amount of athletes looking for a way to get the edge over one another. Steroids is often the drug used to give them that edge, but should these drugs be allowed? A person would think it would be an ignominy to cheat but it is becoming quite normal. There was a boy named Taylor Hooton from a small town just north of Dallas. Taylor was in a family full of talented athletes; however, a month after his 17th birthday Taylor killed himself because of steroids. His father was a pitcher in the MLB, and his brother a pitcher in college. Taylor had a lot of pressure on him to be successful, and it forced him to make a risky move that did not pay off. Yes, steroids can help athletes get stronger and better at what they do; however, it does a lot more harm to you than you think. 30% of collegiate and professional athletes take steroids, as do 10%-20% of high school athletes. (Meunier) Taking performance enhancing drugs at any level of athletics should not be allowed because it gives players an

The most commonly discussed issue in sports of the 21st century is the use of performance enhancing drugs by professional athletes. Over the past four years, it has been nearly impossible to turn on the television without hearing something about athletes and these drugs. From former National League MVP Third Baseman Ken Caminiti's admission of steroid use in an issue of Sports Illustrated (Verducci, 2004) to 2006 Tour de France Champion Floyd Landis being stripped of title due to a failed doping test (Blue, 2006) virtually every sport is involved. Are performance enhancing drugs a substance that threatens the very existence of professional sports, or are they the future? Perhaps the issue

At the heart of sports is the tradition of competition, rivalry, excellence, winning. But where does "doing whatever it takes to win" to cross the line? In recent years, performance enhancing drugs have been no stranger to professional athletes. Although they make the sport more fun, professional athletes should not be allowed to take steroids because steroids are damaging to the body and steroid users receive an unfair athletic advantage.

In horse races the horses are motivated to go faster by their riders flogging them, but athletes motivate themselves. They do whatever it takes to become just a little faster or just a little stronger. We don’t accept subpar performances from pro athletes. No, they have to be the best. They are expected to be superhuman. And because of these unrealistic expectations we have made it where athletics is all about the genetic potential of a person. How strong and how fast their genes will let them be. However, if we allowed athletes to use performance enhancing drugs, sports would no longer be a genetic lottery, we wouldn’t be rewarding people for being born a certain way. Instead we would be rewarding people for way more that. We would be rewarding

It is wrong of the sports world to push players to take drugs to be better, faster, and stronger just because it would be more entertaining to watch. There are many extreme health risks associated with doping and taking performance enhancing drugs that we know nothing about. Performance-enhancing drugs are “linked to a number of cancers, premature heart disease, mood disorders including uncontrolled episodes of rage, and more” (Bosshardt, J.6.). According to Stephan Nolan in his article, “Is it Time to Allow Drugs in Sports?”, says that “many drugs pose serious health risks” and by encouraging athletes to take them, we urge them to “put their own personal health in danger”. Athletes tend to push themselves to the limit as it is, and legalizing or promoting drug use might cause them to push themselves too far. This is something fans, coaches, and the sports industry have no right to

The competition amongst professional and young athletes is all over the world and has been around for a very long time now. The desire of being a competitor is something that it is within everyone. In sports, everyone wants to be better than the next man. The competition in sports makes some people willing to do anything to be the best. Many athletes have taken the traits of being a competitor way too far and wants to raise their chance of winning and being the best. A large number of athletes use performance-enhancing drugs, such as steroids, to become the best they can be. Steroids should not be accepted in sports.

This is a material world promoting material values, thus meaning that it should not be surprising to see individuals being willing to do everything in their power in order to make profits. Or should it? The sports community today is troubled by a series of athletes who have yielded to society's pressures and abandoned their principles with the purpose of taking performance enhancing drugs. It is difficult to determine if it would be normal for the masses to judge these individuals, concerning that they are actually one of the reasons for which these people have come to consider taking performance enhancing drugs in the first place. However, the only ones who can judge them are other hard-working sportspersons who have stood by their principles and who respect the idea of sport in general.

According to Dr. Charles E. Yesalis, a professor health and human development at Penn St. University, "drug use among athletes has gone dramatically up in recent years. Athletes also are becoming more venturesome about mixing different types of drugs. One reason is that new drugs keep coming on the market, and some turn out to be of help in giving athletes a competitive edge. Sports officials feel they have no choice but to try to combat drug use in sports with every legitimate weapon at their command. They are motivated in part by concern for athletes' well being. Most performance-enhancing agents have side effects that can pose an immediate or long-range threat to health. But the officials are driven by self-interest too. If the public perceive major sports to be hopelessly drug-ridden, attendance and television viewership is likely to plummet. And thatcould lead to financial ruin for athletes and promoters alike. The monetary stakes are higher today than ever before. Many of the top athletes damned very high salaries, and a select few demand huge additional sums for product endorsement. Pro team owners, meanwhile, are constantly scrambling for more income from broadcasting and other sources to meet their massive payrolls and still turn a profit. A series of drug scandals might well cause media outlets and corporate sponsors

More and more, of our society views winning more important than itself. Success in competition brings status, popularity, and fame, not to mention college scholarships. Today’s athletes are looking for an advantage over the competition that will make them winners. Unfortunately, the drugs of today are caught up in the high stakes competition frenzy. Of this reality, teenage use of performance improved drugs is growing ever more popular. In colleges and in the professional league a lot of people are doing drugs and its ruining their health and life. Also, if some teenagers take performance drugs they are making them better than everyone else giving themselves an advantage over everyone else which is cheating, so why should they get money