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    Steroids and Sports Steroids, ever since their introduction into the sports world five decades ago, they have been a controversial issue (WebMD medical news). Anabolic performance dates as far back as the original Olympic Games. Today walking into any gym you will find some one who is using steroids or some kind of enhancement supplement. Anabolic steroids are so popular with athletes from high School level all the way up to the top. For the past fifty years, athletes around the world use steroids

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    In America the sport industry is very popular. Americans spend million of dollars to be entertained by sports, whether that be by watching it on TV, listening to it, or seeing it played live. Unfortunately, there is a black spot in this lucrative sport industry: steroids. Steroids are well known around the world such as roids or juice. Steroids users can be found among baseball players, body builders, football players, weightlifters, and swimmers, and other professional sports. If an athlete takes

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    performance-enhancing drugs earlier in his career” (“The 15 Biggest Steroid, P.E.D., and Doping Scandals in Sports History. Men's Journal, 10 Jan. 2018, www.mensjournal.com/sports/15-biggest-steroid-ped-and-doping-scandals-sports-history/). Athletes that use steroids are at a high risk of getting caught and suspended. Use of steroids in many sports are illegal but athletes do not always get caught. Congress should pass a law that all professional sports should be testing athletes for Performance Enhancing Drugs

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    Steroid Use In Sports

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    Steroid use in sports When it comes to the topic of steroid use in sports, most of us will readily agree that steroid use in sports is cheating. Where this agreement usually ends, however is on the question of why is the use of steroids in sports cheating. Whereas some are convinced that steroid use in sports is not cheating, others maintain that steroid use in sports is cheating. I agree that steroid use in sports is cheating, because people are gaining an unfair advantage on their opponents. When

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    everything. Man is always trying to beat their opponent no matter what it takes. Some athletes are willing to do anything that could potentially be life threatening in order to get their 15 seconds of fame. This “something” is known as anabolic steroids. Anabolic steroids have come to improve many athletes physical activity, but also ruin an immense amount of lives forever. Although it may give someone the power to feel good, be stronger, and build up more muscle, the negative effects strongly outweigh the

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    Ever since the beginning of organized sports, athletes have done whatever it takes to obtain a physical advantage over their opponent. Many athletes hone their craft, and spend much of their lives training to perform at their peak, while others take the easy way out; by taking performance enhancing drugs. Anabolic-androgen steroids should not be available for use by athletes who play competitive organized sports because of the unfair advantage it brings them in a competitive setting. Athletes use

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    Legalize Steroids In Sports Ben Johnson was one of the first superstar athletes to be caught using steroids and was stripped of his 100m gold medal at the 1988 Olympics. He was eventually banned for life in 1993 for testing positive again (Richardson 2010). Performance enhancing drugs have become widely used since the 1970’s and have only increased in the numbers of athletes using the drugs to up their endurance and perform to their greatest potential. Professionals such as Barry Bonds, Jose

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    player the advantage of fear and discretion on the playing field. The use of steroids also increases endurance in the muscles of those who take them. This may be the single biggest reason that steroids give an unfair advantage in a competitive setting. “Since steroids can increase endurance levels multiple times, athletes find it easier to run faster and improve their performance in sports,” (“Steroids in Sports.”). Steroids are used to enhance endurance for many reasons. First, increased muscle endurance

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    world have strived to increase their capability to succeed in a sport or sports they play. Most train hard, push their limits, dedicate their time solely on sports, others on the other hand, try to succeed with little amount of effort possible. What is being eluded to is the use of illegal steroids in sports. This is an issue all over the world in not only professional teams but also college teams or even high school teams. These steroids give athletes an advantage over all of the other athletes in

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    encounter sports and the athletes in each sport everyday. Is the use of illegal drugs in sports becoming a problem? In recent search and study by Britain's journal of sports medicine the research show that using illegal drugs in sports can cause serious issues for the player and how it affects the body mentally and physically. Players in the professional world will continue to idalise the use of illegal drugs or will they make a change and will the pros take a stand in the use of steroids. Steroids can

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