What Makes A True Athlete?

A true athlete is one that decides to show his performances and strength based on his God given ability to perform at a very high level that is beyond other athletes, based on the seriousness, effort, and determination, he invested in his practice of the sport, combine with experiences acquired over the time in conditioning the physical body and mind in the practice, to perfect in his athletic performances. Being physically fit and ready to demonstrate one’s ability in any sporting event is not easy to achieve. It requires a lot of discipline before and after, for one to reach his target goal which is a great deal of commitment in one’s life in choosing the right way to attend this goal, whether through the God given ability, which is the right way and the acceptable way or taking the easy way that may be hurtful at the end. Ethical Dilemma This is situation about a young athlete, Paul, who was faced with the problem of decision making of his life career, based on the choices of choosing to play by the right way of performing in the sport without enhancement performance drug or with enhancement performance drug in order to …show more content…
“The player may lose as a consequence of the use of drugs outside of medical purposes , such as loss of health, loss of medal, punctuated place , loss of physical attractiveness, loss of mental balance, loss of financial gratification, and loss of respect of important people in the environment”(Mikolajczyk, 1991). The coach may also know that he can be expelled from coaching in any sport, and the use of drugs can turn to affect the health of the athletes and natural ability to perform effectively, as they used to and drug use is not the right thing for sport and