Cheating has occurred in a wide variety of styles over time in many different sports, but one of the major complications that has come along over time has been the use of drugs to help improve an athlete’s performance. For example, athletes such as Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bond are prime examples of athletes who used enhancement drugs to make them perform better. These athletes looked like leaders of their sport but then after testing positive to drug usage they had their captain like reputations ruined forever. Although I acknowledge it’s justifiable that everyone may have equal access to particular enhancements, it comes with a price. Athletes should be role models for all children in today’s world and taking steroids or another type of
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Will Hobson, writer for the Washington Post, goes into a great deal of information about the Russian track doping scandal in WADA: 'Deeply rooted culture of cheating ' among Russian athletes. Illegal performance enhancement use doesn’t leave a good image of an individual let alone a whole national team like Russia. In this case, Hobson explains it wasn’t the athlete 's fault, they were just pressured by the selectors of the team to take part in the drug program they had, or they wouldn’t be considered as a member of the national team. This doesn 't leave a good reputation for one of the most powerful countries in the world on the track and in everyday life. Furthermore, this is also a good example of how drug usage affects more than just the athletes. In this case, and the government even struggles with the information they were hiding the whole time. Will Hobson states, “Top Russian athletes have for years participated in a systematic doping regime involving bribery, extortion and destruction of evidence”. Basically, this explains that cheating can lead to more vulgar acts in hiding it when it’s not allowed in the first place and so on. Additionally, it doesn’t sound like this is something to be proud of according to the text. Thus destroying the value of these specific involved russian athletic programs. This supports that drug enhancements can lead to a chain of
Will Hobson, writer for the Washington Post, goes into a great deal of information about the Russian track doping scandal in WADA: 'Deeply rooted culture of cheating ' among Russian athletes. Illegal performance enhancement use doesn’t leave a good image of an individual let alone a whole national team like Russia. In this case, Hobson explains it wasn’t the athlete 's fault, they were just pressured by the selectors of the team to take part in the drug program they had, or they wouldn’t be considered as a member of the national team. This doesn 't leave a good reputation for one of the most powerful countries in the world on the track and in everyday life. Furthermore, this is also a good example of how drug usage affects more than just the athletes. In this case, and the government even struggles with the information they were hiding the whole time. Will Hobson states, “Top Russian athletes have for years participated in a systematic doping regime involving bribery, extortion and destruction of evidence”. Basically, this explains that cheating can lead to more vulgar acts in hiding it when it’s not allowed in the first place and so on. Additionally, it doesn’t sound like this is something to be proud of according to the text. Thus destroying the value of these specific involved russian athletic programs. This supports that drug enhancements can lead to a chain of