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Should Performanc Athletes Use Steroid?

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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 because it is terrible for athletes health and unfair to other competitors who do not take PEDs. Although some may say it will boost ratings for the sport because the players will be better, in the long run it will actually hurt the ratings because players will have to retire. Athletes should not use …show more content…

In the 2016 Olympics, Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova wasn’t suspended along with fellow teammates even though she has taken performance enhancing drugs before and was a suspect. If the IOC (International Olympic Committee) didn’t suspend the whole Russian team, to start they might as well suspend an athlete who has been a suspect for years. Before the 2016 Olympics Russia’s whole national team didn’t get suspended despite a team wide doping program. Doping is a really big issue and is cheating. Not suspending the whole team could result in someone who took PEDs to go unseen into the Olympics and beat everybody because they cheated. Someone sneaking in and winning because they cheated isn’t fair to other competitors who tried really hard to let alone get in the Olympics, and lost in a race to a cheater. Taking performance enhancing drugs is not only bad for athletes health, but also unfair to other competitors who do not use PEDs. Some may think it will make sports more exciting but really in the long run they will be less exciting when all the players retire due to PED related

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