When it comes to the topic of steroids and its use to cheat in sports to give one the upper hand, most of us rarely agree with the use of anabolic steroids and its use towards professional sport or by having it as an enhancement to grow bigger enhanced muscles in a short period of time. Where this agreement usually ends, however is on the question are anabolic steroids a form of cheating in professional sports and why is it considered cheating? Where some are convinced that its purposes can be used to its properties to be able to heal and treat injury at a higher percentage rate and time with proper dosage given by a licensed doctor, others maintain the fact of its negative effects and its abuse on its use to take as an easy way out and enhance
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The negative effects are never displayed only the good results. In the article Drugs and Athletes Opposing view online collection explains, “Steroids can have harmful and unpleasant side effects for men as well. These include acne, baldness, heart disease, hypertension, impotence, stroke, liver damage, and prostate cancer. Steroids can also alter one’s mood and increase aggression” (gale). This is a side in which many or a few look into as well for those who take steroids avoid this life threatening caution in which leaves them into a bad journey ahead. Another fact in which to take consideration is “Steroids have been officially banned in Olympics competition since 1973. They are also forbidden in the NFL and other sports leagues including Major League Baseball, which after much outside criticism finally began testing all of its players for steroids in 2004. It is also a federal crime to possess or distribute anabolic steroids without a doctor’s prescription” (gale). Not only will this drug ruin your life span but also an illegal to have in one’s …show more content…
This topic presents two sides of the story in which the main question whether enhancing drugs are a form of cheating or not? In the article they mention “Using such drugs gives athletes an unfair advantage over those who choose not to use performance enhancers, in this view. Furthermore, it creates pressure among athletes to use such drugs if they want to remain competitive” (gale). What the author is trying to say is that athletes are now having to use these enhancement drugs to be able to compete with other in order to have a chance of winning. However, in contrast Kees Kooman, an editor of a Dutch magazine for runner’s mentions “All athletes someday have to choose: Do I want to complete at a world- class level and take drugs, or do I want to compete at the club level and be clean?” (gale). By what Kooman is trying to say is that the present in which we live in is at a higher level of competition in sports that in which many of us aren’t as gifted ability in athletics but also have to choose whether do I want to take drugs to be able to compete at a higher level or do I want to keep myself at the same level and stay clean. This is a controversy in which many players may or may not have to go thru in a certain point in their
The negative effects are never displayed only the good results. In the article Drugs and Athletes Opposing view online collection explains, “Steroids can have harmful and unpleasant side effects for men as well. These include acne, baldness, heart disease, hypertension, impotence, stroke, liver damage, and prostate cancer. Steroids can also alter one’s mood and increase aggression” (gale). This is a side in which many or a few look into as well for those who take steroids avoid this life threatening caution in which leaves them into a bad journey ahead. Another fact in which to take consideration is “Steroids have been officially banned in Olympics competition since 1973. They are also forbidden in the NFL and other sports leagues including Major League Baseball, which after much outside criticism finally began testing all of its players for steroids in 2004. It is also a federal crime to possess or distribute anabolic steroids without a doctor’s prescription” (gale). Not only will this drug ruin your life span but also an illegal to have in one’s …show more content…
This topic presents two sides of the story in which the main question whether enhancing drugs are a form of cheating or not? In the article they mention “Using such drugs gives athletes an unfair advantage over those who choose not to use performance enhancers, in this view. Furthermore, it creates pressure among athletes to use such drugs if they want to remain competitive” (gale). What the author is trying to say is that athletes are now having to use these enhancement drugs to be able to compete with other in order to have a chance of winning. However, in contrast Kees Kooman, an editor of a Dutch magazine for runner’s mentions “All athletes someday have to choose: Do I want to complete at a world- class level and take drugs, or do I want to compete at the club level and be clean?” (gale). By what Kooman is trying to say is that the present in which we live in is at a higher level of competition in sports that in which many of us aren’t as gifted ability in athletics but also have to choose whether do I want to take drugs to be able to compete at a higher level or do I want to keep myself at the same level and stay clean. This is a controversy in which many players may or may not have to go thru in a certain point in their