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    an icon in modern-day sports. He won the tour de France a record seven consecutive times between 1999 and 2005” (Levinthal, C. 2014). Should sport authorities allow the use of performance-enhancing drugs (PED) in all professional sport? It is not unfair that one person won the tour de France seven consecutive times by doping? What about other participants? Personally, I believe that sport authorities should not allow the use of performance-enhancing drugs in professional sports. Not only the use of

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    Enhancing is just another way for athletes to find success in sports. The drug effects many athletes in their daily life, which changes the way that they are viewed as role models. Reasons for the judgement towards them could have many different views and Sportsmanship tops them all. Their daily behavior on the sporting field causes people to judge their personal life based on their sports ability. There are many different reasons that doping in sports should be illegal such as it gives an athlete an unfair

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    Performance Enhancing Drug Usage in Sports: Winning at any Cost Performance Enhancing Drugs are frequently used by sporting professionals, though major sports organizations have prohibited their usage as a result of the negative attributes and effects correlated with continuous intake of these drugs. Many nations are concerned by the flourishing amount of incidents during the usage of steroids advertised by the sports athletes. Professional athletes, such as baseball players, have been in the spotlight

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    usage of performance-enhancing drugs be allowed in sports? “Doping” is the term used when athletes use illegal or banned substances to increase their performance. Each year thousands of athletes are banned from participated in events due to doping. Most athletes use some form of anabolic steroids, which are natural and man made forms of testerone. Other athletes use drugs to enhance the oxygen within their blood to increase their stamina. The idea of using drugs to enhance athletic performance

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    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

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    use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports I thought that I knew everything. Through this research, I have read a lot of information on if performance-enhancing drugs could be allowed or not in sports. The research that I did was very informative for me. I got to learn all the Pros and Cons of performance enhancing drugs. The research allowed me to pick 6 people who made valid points for each side of the argument. “Should performance enhancing drugs be allowed in sports,” by Thomas H. Murray. Thomas

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    Drugs are good for you so you can get better at the sports you love and get stronger and get faster and faster and faster “brah” you can get as big as you can you could look like a balloon animal like really really big balloon animal thats why I think drugs should be good for you. People could use steroids, cocaine, marijuana, heroin, meth, and a lot more of drugs to use. So the players get pumped for the game. Its like their coffee in the morning to like wake up and get ready. The sports that

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    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

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    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

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    Sports are full of entertainment and great players. Imagine if the players were boosted with skills and performed like the monster on the movie Space Jam. This would be amazing if you never watched space jam I highly recommended you do so. The movie was great; it had one of the worlds best athletes in it Michal Jordan. He is known as one of the greatest basketball players ever to play the game. Space jam can show how an extra boost can improve players’ game play to the next level. Athletes should

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