But athletes seek to gain competitive advantages in numerous ways and many of these are not banned. Banned substances are typically synthetic so they artificially enhance athletic performance. If the point of sport is to test the natural limits of human nature then, by artificially extending those limits, doping is at odds with the essence of sport. Many banned substances, such as anabolic steroids, are synthetic.
But many naturally occurring substances, such as Erythropoietin EPO , and techniques that involve no synthetic substances, such as blood doping , are also banned. Conversely, many synthetic enhancements are permitted. Think of the latest in streamlined clothing, cycling helmets, and running shoes. Another problem could be the intended effect. Blood doping is supposed to increase red blood cell supply, thereby increasing stamina. But other means of achieving this effect are permitted by WADA.
The problems with Performance Enhancing drugs has proliferated over the years but if the government stepped in and tried to deal with it, it would just give them another responsibility that they may not be able to handle. They may also be able to take steps that are too extreme, such as throwing people in jail. Performance enhancing drugs are profoundly harmful deleterious to the human body and should under no circumstances, be used in sports.
They cause many life threatening illnesses such as heart attacks and disease. Keep all Performance Enhancing drugs out of sports forever! Steroids should be banned because in professional Chris Benoit murdered his wife, his son and then himself; the cause was from steroids.
Eddie Guerrero was another professional wrestler who died from heart failure in from steroid use. Benoit and Guerrero were young. Marc Velasquez Chris Benoit did use steroids but what they say drove him to kill his wife and child was tramatic brain injury from taking bumps to the head over and over again. They said his brain was that of a year-old dementia patient. Eddy did steroids too but his heart problems were caused by years of hard drugs and prescription drug use not steroids. Steroids need to be illegal!!
It is not fair for people who work hard for their big muscles and who go to the gym everyday, and someone else just injects themself with a needle or whatever. And it is so horrible for the people who take steroids because it messes up your body so much!!! Steroids are just an excuse or an easy way to get bigger. People who uses steroids are just lazy to work for it or gain it themselves.
Steroids should be allowed in professional sports, because after all, playing a professional sport is a job. Why should someone be denied from something that will help them be better then their competitor. With concussions becoming such a big deal recently you would think people would want to stop athletes from getting even stronger and possibly giving more concussions to other players. Musberger should be ashamed of himself. Getting to the top of the mountain should be earned through discipline, hard work and perseverance — not by cheating or using a quick fix.
I disagree with you because, doping does affect the integrity of the sport along with the health of the athlete. Getting a joint reaper is a surgery to get a athlete back in to the sport. Tom Kamenick. I agree and feel that steroids should be banned. The reasons why are pretty clear including the obvious health concerns, unfair advantages it provides and also the message it sends to our younger generations.
When you think of basketball household names would be Michael Jordan, Dr. Now think about how devastated they would be and what it would do to the sport itself. It puts in jeopardy the very programs that are meant to get those athletes face time with younger generations. To plant those lifetime roots of and keep those kids on the straight and narrow with at young ages a very achievable goal of becoming a professional.
Majority of kids at some time have definitely sat in the backyard and done countdown of 5,4,3,2,1 score and the crowd goes wild. That is why I feel that steroids have absolutely no place in professional sports. An unstated assumption of your argument is that play between any specific players is fundamentally fair. So that is a specific and everyday example to the contrary, from my own real life. For a silly but philosophically illustrative example, would you fault me if I would be willing to pay to watch the featherweight champion and a team of endocrinologists take on the heavyweight champion?
I have no specific disdain for doing things the old-fashioned way. I agree popping pills and whatnot to get bigger is too easy a shortcut to gain an advantage, and so PEDs should definitely be illegal in all sports. Because drugs have been in the public eye, it's no longer convincing for athletes to say they weren't aware of the possibility of drug-taking.
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Find out more about page archiving. Ethics guide. Body Modification. On this page Performance enhancing behaviour Drugs are different Page options Print this page. Performance enhancing behaviour Body modification Where do we draw the line between acceptable behaviour and cheating? Athletes exercise, train and follow special diets. They may wear special clothing to cut down wind or water resistance, and cut their hair and remove body hair for the same reason.
If they are injured they are likely to receive medical treatment in order to get them competing again as soon as possible. Some may undergo cosmetic nonessential surgery - for example, to speed recovery from an injury.
They may even opt for performance- enhancing surgery: laser eye surgery for a golfer or archer is one possibility. Many athletes who take steroids say that it hurts only me if I choose to take them, so why should the society care? Society cares because steroid use is a form of cheating Dillingham Paragraphs 5 and 6.
The relevant definition of cheating is to deliberately violate rules in order to gain an advantage. While there may be some rules or laws that are so unconscionable that it's justifiable to disobey them, that doesn't apply here.
Taking steroids in sports is cheating, and cheating should be punished. According to Dr. Willey, steroids work so well that the athletes who take steroids, have an unfair advantage over those who don't take steroids.
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