There are a few cases where players will take the steroid with out anyone knowing. Those are normally the players who start to abuse it and start to become to stronger then the coaches want there players to be. Normally the players who abuse the drug are the one who break all the records and get all the credit for being the best at the game but it is only the steroids that are making the player better then everyone
Performance Enhancing Drugs Verses Technology Cheryl Spink COM/156 December 20, 2013 Valentine C. Angell Performance Enhancing Drugs Verses Technology Great athletes, such as, Lance Armstrong, Sammy Sosa, Chris Benoit and Arnold Schwarzenegger abused performance enhancing drugs. These were men idolized by people young and old, which have created an inappropriate effect on the youth of today. Athletes abusing performance enhancing drugs causes long-term side effects and inappropriate role modeling to others. Some argue if there is a moral difference in performance enhancing drugs or performance enhancing technologies (7). There are many types of performance enhancing drugs and technologically advanced equipment.
This is much safer than illegal enhancer, and it is tested to be safe and legal. The problem is that many people even though this is legal, still think this is bad and illegal because of the results that are shown with some of these guys. But remember this is what they do for a living work out everyday. And have perfect bodies. This doesn’t mean athletes should be alright to use them, if they are going to allow legal enhancers their should be an extremely strict limit on the kind they can take and how much they can take.
An anti-doping program in the U.S tries to prevent sport athlete from cheating; unfortunately, became less strict often blocked by unions and contracts. The athletic drug testing is simple and straightforward, but another way is “mandate” force the athlete to agree to participate and have to obey the rules of the sport. In today world there, a great challenge determining to detect enhancing drugs because continually new chemicals make it nearly detectable. For example, “gene doping” a newly created enhance drugs that athletes can inject making them build muscle, which essentially be non-detectable. That a person born to be bodybuilders from the moment they start.
Abuse of Steroids Bryan Cruse Dr. T. Mathias Eng 121-fall 5 December 5, 2008 Abuse of Steroids The use of steroids in high school football is becoming a life threatening practice for young athletes. According to Seth Livingstone in Sports Weekly “lives are being altered-even lost to the use of performance enhancing substances that have made their way to the corridors and playing fields of the nation’s high school, collage, and professional athletes.” Steroids are manufactured substances that produce male hormones that produce un-natural stimulants used for muscle building. These drugs can be prescribed for things such as delayed puberty, AIDS, and other causes that cause the muscle mass to decrease. But the problem
So the question rises, why are performance enhancing drugs not legalized? Various forms of performance enhancement drugs have been utilized for centuries and yet it is still illegal for professional athletes to use these pharmaceuticals (Richard I.G. Holt 84). These drugs should remain illegal, it is an unfair advantage against other athletes constituting it as simple as cheating (Dillingham 91) and most importantly these actions have an effect not only on their bodies but also all of the sport fanatics. Dillingham states that steroids are a form of cheating creating an unfair advantage to those who take them breaking the social contract athletes have implicitly agreed to: We are going to have a fair contest (Dillingham 91).
To name a few; Marion Jones, Jose Canseco, and Roger Clemens. Steroids can be harmful, they can destroy lives, and careers if not used properly. I feel steroids are unnecessary. If you have to use drugs or any other legal substances to perform better, you are a fraud In this paper I will try to express to you the dangers of steroid use. Marion Jones was a world renounced Olympic track and field star.
Steroids, Greatly Misunderstood It’s not your typical everyday conversation between you, friends, and family but when the subject of steroid use is brought up immediately everyone thinks of oversized muscle heads suffering from either “roid-rage“ or suicidal tendencies. In actuality these are extreme cases that get extra hype and publicity because of the few but intense incidents that the media focus their attention on. This skeptic view created by the news stations across our nation has tarnished the use of steroids and the benefits they bring with an image of drug dealers and deformed body builders. How dangerous are steroids? Anabolic steroids are essentially extremely safe and greatly beneficial for numerous health complications.
Athletes are arguably some of the most competitive people in the world and will do whatever is necessary to achieve the goals they have set for themselves. However, some athletes competitive fire drives them to the use of performance enhancing drugs. The use of performance enhancing drugs has always been a controversial topic ever since it was discovered that athletes were doing it. The topic of should performance enhancing drugs be legalized leads to much heated debate and has since been a controversial topic. To understand why athletes have turned to such extreme measures, one must know more about performance enhancing drugs.
He explained with the point with the idea that sport is about creating extraordinary moments and drug taking would simply be cheating. He explained that drugs have long term effects and can cause excessive damage to the body. Olivier then stated a very good point for the argument against drug taking for sports: that sports will be all about money and not talent. The richest individuals will be better than the ones who cannot afford it. Both debaters used imagery to convey characters demonstrating either sides of the argument.