Steroids and Performing-Enhancing Drugs Performance-enhancing drugs are used in sports to give the player an advantage over the other players. There have been many professional athletes that have been caught using performance-enhancing drugs. Many players are caught when a drug test is administered. Professional sports leagues have introduced a random drug test so athletes that do drugs cannot prepare for the test. Performance-enhancing drugs are banned in sports and if a player is caught using these…
Diego Maradona was a professional soccer player most known for his International achievements. It was said that he failed a couple of drug tests and that he was on cocaine. Many people lost respect for him when they heard this. He denied doing drugs at first, but he then admitted to it. Professional athletes should be banned from their sport for doing drugs because young people look up to them and they are putting a bad example. Doping in sports is not allowed in any sport, and should not be allowed to…
Athletes Using Anabolic Steroids Since the 1956 Olympics, anabolic steroids have become one of the most popular performance-enhancing drugs for athletes of all ages (“Anabolic Steroids”). Steroids are a mixture of compounds that include an important hormone called testosterone (Zelman). When steroids are taken, the individual who took them then has an abundance of that certain hormone. Some feel as though competition is being cheated by the use of steroids in sports because others have a higher…