Olympic athletes have been using drugs and steroids to boost performance since the 1968 Olympic Games at Mexico, and since then doping is gaining popularity in professional sports. Using drugs to excel in sports has existed for many years in both Olympic and professional athletics and it has become increasingly tough to regulate due to the sophistication of drugs that go undetected and the number of athletes that are involved. More needs to be done to consequence violators or doping should be allowed to some degree.
Most of today's modern athletes feel that they need to use any type of drugs to win events at the Olympic Games. It's frequently used today by most winners. Lance Armstrong is one of those people who was doping and got 7 gold medals at the Tour De France. In the article, Ian Steadman makes a good point about how “Nearly every recent winner of the Tour de France has been implicated in doping”(Steadman). Its really hard to find someone now that isn't using drugs, it's almost become a lifestyle for athletes. Another example is that some athletes take more than one kind of drug. In the article, Doping …show more content…
The use of drugs every day could create the greatest athletes ever, they give people unfair advantages to the people who are taking them. It would give the Olympic Games an edge and be more exciting to watch, there would be faster times and closer races instead of just one person dominating (Eveleth). Just because people use drugs, it doesn't mean that they will turn into a super athlete they still have to train. In the article, How Many Olympic Athletes Are Taking Drugs, the author makes a strong argument about how “Athletes still need to train to make the most of their drugs”(“How Many Olympic Athletes Are Taking Drugs”). The athletes put in just as much work as the others do to get a modified result because of the steroids that they are
Most of today's modern athletes feel that they need to use any type of drugs to win events at the Olympic Games. It's frequently used today by most winners. Lance Armstrong is one of those people who was doping and got 7 gold medals at the Tour De France. In the article, Ian Steadman makes a good point about how “Nearly every recent winner of the Tour de France has been implicated in doping”(Steadman). Its really hard to find someone now that isn't using drugs, it's almost become a lifestyle for athletes. Another example is that some athletes take more than one kind of drug. In the article, Doping …show more content…
The use of drugs every day could create the greatest athletes ever, they give people unfair advantages to the people who are taking them. It would give the Olympic Games an edge and be more exciting to watch, there would be faster times and closer races instead of just one person dominating (Eveleth). Just because people use drugs, it doesn't mean that they will turn into a super athlete they still have to train. In the article, How Many Olympic Athletes Are Taking Drugs, the author makes a strong argument about how “Athletes still need to train to make the most of their drugs”(“How Many Olympic Athletes Are Taking Drugs”). The athletes put in just as much work as the others do to get a modified result because of the steroids that they are