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
In chapter six we talked a lot about prejudice, and how and why there are prejudices views in our world. A Prejudiced is an individuals views or feelings towards a person or group based only on their affiliation with that group. If a person has a prejudice against specific group of people or just a single person they will most likely have very strong negative feelings when he or she comes into contact with the person or group. There are three components to a every prejudice, the first component would be “cognitive Prejudice”. The cognitive Prejudice is mainly what people believe to be true.
The use of PEDs is illegal in sports, I believe that it should stay that way. Many athletes have had their lives ruined from PEDs loosing the ones they love or dying themselves, and there are many horrible side effects that include, mental problems, and even death. Also, when someone is taking PEDs and another isn’t in say football then the person who isn’t could get very hurt, in short PEDs should just be dropped out of professional sports. If PEDs stay in professional sports (illegally) then many more people will die. Weather it is from another person or yourself. Having PEDs in professional sports give the athlete side effects that are hard to live with, doesn’t even guarantee that the drugs will work-the risks are high and the chances of it being good are low- they set a bad example for kids and teens around the world who look up to the pro athletes who take PEDs, lastly it will hurt the other athlete or yourself.
Anabolic steroids are used by athletes for their muscle strength and power increasing properties. In addition, some athletes use anabolic steroids in an effort to reduce muscle fatigue.
Do you feel that PED’s should be allowed in sport? The problem is that players use PED’s or Performance Enhancing Drugs to get an advantage over their opponents. Despite the advances in technology for discovering PED’s, there is still a great number of people who get away with PED’s. Many people continue to use PED’s and will continue to use them until they get caught, and even after they get caught. Performance enhancing drugs should not be allowed in sports, resulting in more fair competition.
According to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), also the organization that creates the rules for the Olympic games involving drugs, has banned the use of PED’s because many people have abused it/used it to their own advantage for competitions. The international conference of government and sports condemned the use of PED’s and if an athlete is found making a use of these substances their sport career will resolve into a 2 year suspension, because it is a form of illegal substance. Which it could result into issues with the law. A new rule is coming upon the the Olympic games and professional sports teams that players/athletes are going to be needed blood test monthly to prevent
The severity of drug abuse should not be taken lightly. The use of performance enhancing drugs in competitive sports should definitely be illegal. Doping is using something that is above
sport to better themselves as an athlete. Many sober athletes work day and night to get
Write an original posting reflecting on the lecture/s you have viewed. Briefly describe the main points of the lecture and its implications for teaching immigrants.
The use of Performance Enhancing Drugs(PED) has a major impact on athletes negatively and cause many problems in sports and competitions. These PEDs should be banned for athletes and competitors on any level because they are, unhealthy and harmful to the body, give users an edge over competitors, and it diminishes the true sportsmanship of the game itself.
In Apocalypse Now, Willard and Kurtz are parallel figures. Kurtz is labeled as a great soldier who went insane, disregarding his orders and going rogue. Willard, on the other hand, is portrayed as someone who is willing to follow orders. These men appear to be vastly different, yet there are strong parallels between them. Both Willard and Kurtz have become disillusioned with the US involvement in Vietnam. Apocalypse Now uses both stylistic and narrative techniques to show the similarities between the two men. Their shared military background, and their onscreen placement, show Willard and Kurtz as complementary characters, in their disillusionment with the authority of the US military, brought on by their journeys through the Vietnam jungles, and their
Performance Enhancing Drugs are an injustice to sports and should be permanently banned. PEDs have been a problem for many years and all sports have a problem with it. Commissioner of Baseball, Bud Selig said: "Major League Baseball has worked diligently with the Players Association for more than a decade to make our Joint Drug Program the best in all of professional sports. I am proud of the comprehensive nature of our efforts" (http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/aug/05/mlb-commissioner-bud-selig-drugs-peds). He went on to discuss these efforts in some detail. This topic and efforts have been debated for many years.
Numerous athletes now a days are taking steroids, why would that be? Is it to make a squad, or impress an individual from the opposite sex? There truly isn't a correct response to why athletes want to take performance enhancing drugs. However, ones mental state, hereditary disasters, or even performance pressure from the coaching staff, can lead a competitor to steroids. Anabolic-androgenic steroids are man-made substances identified with male sex hormones. Anabolic for the most part identifies with muscle-building while androgenic alludes to expanded manly attributes. Steroids are accessible legally, but under certain circumstances. They are legitimately accessible just by prescription from a doctor, to treat conditions that happen when the
What are performance enhancing drugs? PED’s are supplements such are human growth hormones and steroids that a person,usually an athlete, can take and they will make them perform much better than they really should. PED’s are a major issue in the NFL just this year several players have been suspended for taking these drugs. Two players for the Chicago bears, Alshon Jeffery and Jerrell Freeman, were both suspended in the same week for taking PED’s. Several other players that faced suspension were, Peyton Manning, Clay Matthews, Julius Peppers, and James Harrison. PED’s are not allowed in any professional sport because the give the athlete an unfair advantage over other athletes that do not take the supplements. Some physical downfalls of doping
Essentially athletes should be banned for using any performance enhancing drug period. You are not allowed to cheat in sports, therefor anyone caught cheating should get a lifelong ban. Out of all the athletes that have been caught cheating only a handful have received permanent bans. Anabolic steroids or any other type of steroid is not healthy for you or your body. It is not only illegal, but it can damage your body for the rest of your life. So next time you see a player busted for doping, put my words into
Although many people would say that using steroids is to get: bigger, faster, stronger, and also recover faster from a workout without being super sore from the previous workout. So this would be very beneficial for a pro-athlete that is looking to get stronger, or even to recover from a hard workout in the gym. Even though this might be very exciting to tell a person that would like all of these benefits, standard people shouldn’t be able to use performance enhancing drugs. On the contrary, if the person is getting paid millions of dollars then they should be able to use performance enhancing drugs. Therefore performance enhancing drugs should be illegal for anyone that isn’t a professional athlete. Although a lot of people would be saying “that using steroids is