The Wrong In Steriods
Steroids Plus Athletes Equals Wrong
“If you’re involved in a sport, you make a deal to engage in fair play and be an honorable example. Too often lately, that deals been broken.” said Richard Pound, chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency. Recently, many pro athletes have been given performance enhancing drug tests. Pro athletes in baseball, cycling, football, track and field, tennis and various Olympic events have tested positive for drugs. Since 2005, Major League Baseball has suspended one-hundred twenty-seven players for performance enhancing drugs. Fourteen of them were big leaguers and the rest were minor leaguers, who wanted the major league salary. Every Baseball player who tests positive the first time are suspended fifty games, second positive is one-hundred games and the third positive is lifetime ban, but have the right to seek reinstatement after two years of the suspension. From this information, it is obvious that performance enhancing drugs are prohibited and will not be tolerated if used. Using performance enhancing drugs should stay eliminated from all sports and all athletes should continue to be drug tested.
Many argue that using performance enhancing drugs like steroids is a way to cheat. First, the athlete using the drug has an unfair advantage because of the muscle mass and energy the drugs produce. For example, in the 1984 Olympics, a Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson won a bronze metal in the hundred-meter dash and established a world record. At that event Johnson was more muscular than he was in his earlier years, and in Seoul, Johnson broke another world record. Two days later he tested positive for the steroid Stanozolol and was stripped of his medal. “Johnson would not have made the Canadian Olympic team without the help of steroids,” said Carl Lewis, who won the gold medal in the hundred-meter dash in the 1984 Olympics. Secondly, Steroid and other enhancers are already prohibited but yet many...
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