Everyday people face challenges and wish there was a way to overcome them, and in some cases people feel the need to use something to enhance their level of performance. This is similarly the case in competitive sports, players have a lot of pressure to succeed because of money, endorsements, and even national pride. These pressures often promote professional athletes to adopt unethical ways to cheat such as doping. Doping by definition is “the use of a substance (such as an anabolic steroid or erythropoietin) or technique (such as blood doping) to illegally improve athletic performance” (Merriam-Webster, 2018). Doping has become a controversial topic throughout sports because it can cause damage to athletes health, give them an unfair advantage, and has already shown how it has negatively affected famous athletes. Doping has the ability or potential to drastically change athlete's body, and has been shown to incredibly enhance the performance of athletes. These drugs can be extremely dangerous to athletes bodies.
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Professional athletes try to gain an unfair advantage by not relying on skills or practices, but by the use of performance enhancing drugs. When children grow up they hear stories of professional athletes who use doping and may think it is okay to do it when they get older. The article “How to Get Doping Out of Sports” by the NY Times states,
“Let’s give our young athletes a level playing field, without doping. Let’s put our effort and resources into making sports fair, so no athlete faces this decision ever again.”
This quote helps show the true importance of how a level playing field is needed in sports. If one or two people in a thousand are doping these one or two people make the playing field uneven. If the future of professional athletics is to cheat to win, no one will ever know what pride it is to win without the guilt of
Professional athletes try to gain an unfair advantage by not relying on skills or practices, but by the use of performance enhancing drugs. When children grow up they hear stories of professional athletes who use doping and may think it is okay to do it when they get older. The article “How to Get Doping Out of Sports” by the NY Times states,
“Let’s give our young athletes a level playing field, without doping. Let’s put our effort and resources into making sports fair, so no athlete faces this decision ever again.”
This quote helps show the true importance of how a level playing field is needed in sports. If one or two people in a thousand are doping these one or two people make the playing field uneven. If the future of professional athletics is to cheat to win, no one will ever know what pride it is to win without the guilt of