Since the 1968 Summer Olympics, around 60 olympians have been stripped of their metals. What kind of example is that setting for the younger generation of rising athletes? To cheat your way to the top? The 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing was one of the biggest Olympic drug cases. By being the biggest doping case, it has been reopened and over 3 people athletes have been charged with using drugs to enhance their performance in their chosen sport.
The physiological side effects men experience when using performance enhancing drugs can lead to acne, male pattern baldness, liver damage and stunted growth. The Psychological side effects include Increased aggressiveness and sexual appetite, sometimes resulting in abnormal sexual and criminal behaviour, often referred to as “Roid Rage” and withdrawals from anabolic steroid use can be associated with depression, and in some cases, suicide. …show more content…
You’d think we would be shocked by how many athletes use drugs in sport; but we’re not. We were outraged by Eastern bloc countries 20 years ago but it has all seemed to mellow down to ‘oh, not another one’, and that performance-enhancing drug-taking is endemic and a fact of
The physiological side effects men experience when using performance enhancing drugs can lead to acne, male pattern baldness, liver damage and stunted growth. The Psychological side effects include Increased aggressiveness and sexual appetite, sometimes resulting in abnormal sexual and criminal behaviour, often referred to as “Roid Rage” and withdrawals from anabolic steroid use can be associated with depression, and in some cases, suicide. …show more content…
You’d think we would be shocked by how many athletes use drugs in sport; but we’re not. We were outraged by Eastern bloc countries 20 years ago but it has all seemed to mellow down to ‘oh, not another one’, and that performance-enhancing drug-taking is endemic and a fact of