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Stefan Dosen Mr Paul Pippen 15 August 2014 English Research Essay All Professional athletes should be banned from competing for life if they're are convicted of using illegal Performance Enhancing Drugs In this essay the pending question is wether professional Athletes should be banned for life if convicted of using illegal Performance Enhancing Drugs and I truly believe that in certain circumstances that athletes should be banned. Outlined in this essay will be what are Performance Enhancing Drugs? what different types of these PEDs exist? how PEDs can pose drastic mental & physiological health issues in relation to health? and the use of PEDs ruining the integrity of sport as whole? Which will further on strengthen my argument. What …show more content…

A statement from the website Skins, states "Most fans agreed that PEDs are the greatest threat to the future and integrity of sport (73% agree)", Skins 2014. Which, further fortifies the fact that PEDs in sport has the potential ruin the integrity of sport now and in the future. So this is why harsh actions need to be taken in order to save sport as a whole and not making it on big corruption. But then again the majority of Athletes taking PEDs see it as levelling the playing field. For example, in the sport of Cycling where a majority of the athletes have or most likely take PEDs, when your an athlete who's losing race after race due to the fact your rivalry are taking PEDs then you have the incentive to do so yourself in order to level this unfair playing field athletes are having to endure these recent …show more content…

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