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    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. Performance-enhancing substances, also

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    One of the most debated topics in all of sports is whether performance enhancing drugs should be allowed. According to the free dictionary, performance enhancing drugs is defined as “Any drug used to gain an advantage in sports. Such drugs may improve endurance or strength or accelerate healing after injury”. Performance enhancing drugs was first acknowledged as a problem in professional sports in 1967 when the international Olympic committee created a medical board due to the heightened use. Today

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    Performance Enhancing Drugs “Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.” Once said Mark McGwire. The most commonly used performance enhancing drug(PED)is anabolic androgenic steroids. They are used to increase the ability to gain strength and work out. The other mainly used PED is human growth hormone which is also used to gain muscle. Performance-enhancing drugs in sports should stay illegal. They should stay illegal

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    Why Should Doping Be Allowed In Sports In competitive sports, doping refers to the use of banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs by athletic competitors, where the term doping is widely used by organizations that regulate sporting competitions. “Steroids, doping and other illicit performance enhancing drugs and treatments have become the biggest scourge of professional sports leagues, and that's why it may be time they were made legal” (Smith, Forbes). The agencies regulating and controlling

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    life-threatening diseases or playing fair in sports, but it also raises questions about morality as well as the adverse effects it may cause in the future society and the media. In our media it concentrated society by using thousands of magazines, and tv talk shows in responds of different answers with different points of view about the morality of gene therapy and gene doping. Supporters of this gene doping argue that it has a negative impact for athletes as well as sports and young athletes. Yet, it has aroused

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    blood doping, human growth hormones, steroid, beta-2 agonists. These are a few substances that come into mind when discussing the topic 'performance enhancing drug ' also known as doping. Doping is defined as the use of drugs to enhance performance and gain advantage over the other competitors, and it has been an ongoing problem in the sport community since the early centuries, with an increasing trend showing today. Envision yourself competing against an opponent who has been doping! How would you

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    victory and recognition. The controversy of doping in sports is centered on the use of drugs to increase speed, strength, intensity and endurance. Various sports regulating bodies such as the International Olympic Committee have

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    enhancing drugs What is a Performance enhancing drug? The internet labels a performance enhancing drug or (PED) as any drug or substance that is taken by an athlete to improve the athlete's performance in sports and games. Most of these drugs are illegal and are not allowed to be taken by any athletes. Some of the most common performance enhancing drugs that are used are beta-2 agonists, growth hormones and anabolic steroids. One of the biggest issues with the use of performance enhancing drugs is that

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    In the world of sports it is a competitive place where athletes lay everything they have worked for their whole lives to win the game. Now these athletes have been striving for greatness and dedicating so much of their lives to getting bigger faster and stronger to be able to win some games and ultimately move up in their careers and possibly make a living out of the sport they love to play. Sports rewards players who are motivated and works harder than the other team and stay focused and just dedicate

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    competitors are willing to take this risk. On the contrary, the drugs that these competitors use to enhance their bodies can be the same drugs administered by doctors worldwide. Rules and regulations have been created to restrict and prohibit the use of many performance enhancers like steroids by different organizations such as the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Olympic Committee. Organizations with the popularity and influence on sports, consult a large board of reliable health experts. Although

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