Olympic drug testing is one way of finding out if the athletes really did work their hardest to achieve where they are on that day. Although Lance Armstrong and Ben Johnson may have good reason, all team members should be drug tested in order to compete in the Olympic games because new rules for anti-doping have been made, and once local athletes test positive for performance enhancing drugs, they should start thinking of new lives as codes seem to have nothing in place for them.
Lance Armstrong a pro-cyclist for over 13 years, made many decisions and some were not so good. “In January, he admitted to TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey that he’d used steroids throughout much of his career” (Voughters 4). Although it may have been hard to admit he had used such drugs, was it a harder decision to use the steroids? Armstrong may never know what he could have accomplished without the steroids but he does know he won …show more content…
One who does not dope could never imagine the pain and pressure an athlete is going through to do such a thing. It is also sad to see all of the publicity these athletes are getting when the real spotlight should be on the athletes who got third or second or first places without performance- enhancing drugs. So when it comes down to Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson using the drugs, was it really worth it? Should Lindsey Vonn have used drugs to heal faster to compete? The drugs do not say how good you are at a sport but more how good or great of a person you are. With Russia’s athletics some would say is a broken system. Russia unfortunately will not be missed at the 2016 Olympics. Nobody can say how the 2016 summer Olympics will play out but at least we do know it will be drug free. The new drug laws will be truly a blessing for they will help so many athletes stay sober and will also help the athletes who didn’t win because they chose not to use sport-enhancing drugs to
Lance Armstrong a pro-cyclist for over 13 years, made many decisions and some were not so good. “In January, he admitted to TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey that he’d used steroids throughout much of his career” (Voughters 4). Although it may have been hard to admit he had used such drugs, was it a harder decision to use the steroids? Armstrong may never know what he could have accomplished without the steroids but he does know he won …show more content…
One who does not dope could never imagine the pain and pressure an athlete is going through to do such a thing. It is also sad to see all of the publicity these athletes are getting when the real spotlight should be on the athletes who got third or second or first places without performance- enhancing drugs. So when it comes down to Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson using the drugs, was it really worth it? Should Lindsey Vonn have used drugs to heal faster to compete? The drugs do not say how good you are at a sport but more how good or great of a person you are. With Russia’s athletics some would say is a broken system. Russia unfortunately will not be missed at the 2016 Olympics. Nobody can say how the 2016 summer Olympics will play out but at least we do know it will be drug free. The new drug laws will be truly a blessing for they will help so many athletes stay sober and will also help the athletes who didn’t win because they chose not to use sport-enhancing drugs to