Mark McGwire, one of the players that sparked great interest in baseball, passed the single-season home run record with seventy home runs, the original record was sixty-one. Mark McGwire was a shoo-in to make the Hall of Fame until in 2010, when Mark McGwire admitted that he used PEDs during the 1998 season. The fate is no longer certain and the celebration has stopped. Many fans and critics wonder who is using PEDs and who is not. Today, the world of medicine is improving and although it has a ton of positives it also has some negatives, one of them being that some medicine, PEDs in this case, are easier to get out of the body quicker which means harder to trace. If these new kinds of medicines are being made then why are the policies still
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Dr. John B. Ziegler, the team physician for the U.S. weightlifters at the 1954 world championships, conducted his own studies on people’s reaction to using testosterone to get in better shape and the people loved the results of using them and did not care about the recommended doses (Cowart “Athletes and Steroids: The Bad Bargain). This started the PEDs movement. Once the news got out about the benefits of PEDs, athletes started to recognized the opportunity to gain an advantage and this started a chain reaction that turned into what fans see today. Back then there was little knowledge available about PEDs and there were no consequences for using them so athletes figured it was alright to use …show more content…
Some physical negatives for both sexes include acne, bloated appearance, and rapid weight gain (Anabolic Steroids). These negatives may not seem like that much but if they get bad enough they can grow into an even bigger problem. These negative results (such as rapid weight gain) can affect an athlete’s physical ability to play sports. Most athletes left college early to play professionally so if they get out of shape they could get cut from the team and lose their source of income and if they did not save up money they will either have to go back to college and finish getting their degree or get a job with the degree that they have. Knowing about these possible results could keep athletes from using
Dr. John B. Ziegler, the team physician for the U.S. weightlifters at the 1954 world championships, conducted his own studies on people’s reaction to using testosterone to get in better shape and the people loved the results of using them and did not care about the recommended doses (Cowart “Athletes and Steroids: The Bad Bargain). This started the PEDs movement. Once the news got out about the benefits of PEDs, athletes started to recognized the opportunity to gain an advantage and this started a chain reaction that turned into what fans see today. Back then there was little knowledge available about PEDs and there were no consequences for using them so athletes figured it was alright to use …show more content…
Some physical negatives for both sexes include acne, bloated appearance, and rapid weight gain (Anabolic Steroids). These negatives may not seem like that much but if they get bad enough they can grow into an even bigger problem. These negative results (such as rapid weight gain) can affect an athlete’s physical ability to play sports. Most athletes left college early to play professionally so if they get out of shape they could get cut from the team and lose their source of income and if they did not save up money they will either have to go back to college and finish getting their degree or get a job with the degree that they have. Knowing about these possible results could keep athletes from using