Athletes that use drugs while performing in the Olympic games should have some type of punishment. They should not just be able to get away with everything. Even though not every athlete uses drugs while performing, any drugs that is, the ones who do should have to pay the price. When they use drugs while they are performing, they are risking their whole career, and even their life. Athletes should be required to take a drug test if they plan on performing in the Olympics. Athletes that use drugs should be punished in some kind of way. It is not fair to the athletes that are true to themselves and their teams: they will punish their team, their life and their career. Athletes that use drugs while they are involved in a sport can possibly ruin their careers. Many Olympic athletes have almost ruined their career due to using performance-enhancing drugs. When they use a performance-enhancing drug, they are able to perform better at their sport or event they are in. When using a performance-enhancing drug or any drug, one could get kicked off the team. When one is participating in the Olympics, there is a rule that an athlete is not allowed to have any drug in their body while performing at their event or the duration of the Olympic events. Even if you do not take the drug or do drugs at the Olympics there still will be consequences, for instance like Michael Phelps. Phelps was caught smoking a bong at a local University in South Carolina; when a spectator snapped a picture of him smoking the bong. The spectator then took the picture to the public. Even though at the time he was not competing in the Olympics or even using a performance-enhancing drug, he still got in some serious trouble for that incident. “The reaction w... ... middle of paper ... ...ey will have to pay fine on top of fine. They will probably loose everything they have, so they will more than likely go into bankrupt. Drug testing should be put into place in all sports, but especially they Olympic sports. These athletes have worked so hard to get to the games, so they shouldn’t ruin it by using a simple little drug. Works Cited “The Coaches Playbook Against Drugs.” Office of Justice Programs. U.S. Department of Justice, Web. 10 Apr. 2014. Josey, Imani. “Olympic Medalist Marion Jones Faces Crippling Debt Problem.” Jet. 112.3 (2007): 50. Academic Search Complete. Web. 10 Apr. 2014. Ritson, Mark. “Phelps will not go to pot.” Marketing. (2009): 22. Business Source Premier. Web. 10 Apr. 2014. Wick, Jeannette. “Performance-enhancing drugs A New Reality in Sports?” Pharmacy Times. (2014): 53-54. Academic Search Premier. Web. 10 Apr. 2014.
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Abstract: Since the beginning of sports competition, athletes have always looked for some kind of an edge over their competitors. They will do whatever it takes to be one of the elite and that includes injecting supplements into their bodies to make them bigger, stronger, and faster. Steroid use is probably one of the most common drug misuses in sports competition. Athletes found that with anabolic steroids one could become a better athlete twice as fast. Not until 1975 was the drug first banned from Olympic competition because of the health risks it produced. Shortly thereafter, the rest of the sports world did not allow anabolic steroids as well. With the use of steroids no longer permitted athletes began to look for other alternatives. On the rise is two substances called creatine and androstenedione, both of which are sold over the counter. These two performance enhancers have only had minimal testing done on them, excluding the long-term effects, simply because they haven't been around long enough. Creatine and androstenedione have been said to produce results like steroids without the side effects. The truth is they do produce side effects and irregular muscle growth. By banning the use of performance enhancing drugs, just like steroids, sports competition will have a much healthier and fairer environment to participate in.
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...ng drugs will have a huge impact on them and the people that they are around. When a person does drugs once, they will keep using them and eventually become addicted. Drug testing student athletes is a necessity because taking drugs affects relationships that the athlete has, drugs cause consequence that can be detrimental, and lastly taking drugs hurt the body causing the athlete to have health issues. Hence, drug testing should be done in all high schools around the country.
Time and time again professional and collegiate athletes are caught cheating across the board in all types of sports. The main motive for athletes to dope and think they’ll get away with it is money. If one wins more competitions, one will in turn get more sponsorships or get paid more. For collegiate athletes they are the ones striving to make money, and they think that in order to do that they have no other choice than to dope. Athletes seem to get caught up in the idea of competition, specifically winning, and they lose track of the real reason they compete. They realize that if they continue to win, they will also continue to make more money, and that becomes the driving force behind it all. It is easy for sport franchises, television stations,
Drug use in the Olympics is not a new idea. Dating back to the runners and javelin throwers of ancient Greece and Rome, athletes have been looking for supposedly magic potions (Corelli, par. 1). With competition growing stronger and stronger throughout the years, athletes have tried to beat their opponents by any means necessary.
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Performance-enhancing drugs are not allowed in sports, but if they were, many athletes would be pressured into doping. In sports, athletes would have the tough choice of taking PEDs or not competing. Athletes love to compete, but not all want to risk their lives in the process. If athletes become allowed to use drugs, the rest will have to decide between using drugs too, or dropping out of the sport because they will not be as effective as those who are on PEDs (“Does the Use...”). Drugs risk lives for every pill or shot, and not all athletes are for that. If any athletes decide to use PEDs, the rest will need to as well. Coaches have admitted that athletes need to dope to be highly competitive in all levels of sports (“Does the Use...”). Even coaches around the world have admitted that allowing drugs
The use of drugs for an athlete may be very harmful as his/her health is in great danger. Some drugs are illegal and the International Olympic Committee has a list of banned substances which if consumed, may give out terrible consequences. Such examples are:
Olympic athletes should be tested for drugs because they may be seen as role models to others and maybe imitated. This may impact teenagers/kids and may convey the wrong message of the usage of doping. Kids/Teenagers are always aware of what adults do and like to mimic them. When Olympic
When athletes are using performance enhancing drugs, it makes it unsafe, and unfair for any other athlete involved in the sport. Having mandatory drug tests for students would help lower the risk to becoming addicted to drugs as well. High school, and college is a prime time for students to be exposed, and pressured into taking drugs or drinking alcohol, and with not only athletes, but students in general, know there will be more frequent drug tests will be a strong deterrent against drug use.
Secondly, performance-enhancement impacts the future generation of upcoming athletes. Professional athletes are role models to many world-wide. They are a symbol of inspiration and motivation to young athletes. Upcoming professionals look up to their determination and love of fair and true sportsmanship in successful athletes. Allowing performance enhancing drugs in ...
Today, drug use in sport has reached enormous proportions in society and is destroying athletics from the ground up. Nowhere is the problem more serious than in professional athletics, where athletes, coaches and trainers misuse drugs in search of ways of ways to improve performance. Many athletes fail to take their time when making the decision whether to use drugs to their advantage. Unfortunately athletes may use drugs for therapeutic indications, recreatio9nal or social reasons, as muscular aids or to mask the presence of other drugs during drug testing. But the safety of the athlete's health is being neglected. Drug use has led to an increased number of deaths and suspensions of athletes. Also, if this continues all athletes someday will have to choose whether to compete at a world-class level and take drugs, or compete at a club level and be clean. In sports, athletes, coaches and trainers will try their best to find a way to reach the top level. They not only search for a way to enhance performance...
...thlete under twenty-four hour surveillance is neither feasible nor lawful. Only when there are more accurate tests can the enforcement of drug rules and regulations be possible. As more sophisticated tests come to market, fewer drugs will escape detection. With the limited ability of current techniques to catch athletes red-handed, pressure must be put on the athletic community to reject doping. Until the athletic community refuses doping as a means to an end, little can be done to stop it from happening.
Last year on the seventeenth of August, “major league baseball suspend[ed] Kansas City Royals Miguel Tejada for 105 games without pay for testing positive for an amphetamine” (Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports). The major league baseball organization suspends players involved in doping; however is this an appropriate way to handle this situation? Doping, of any player, during athletic activity displays no sportsmanship toward athletes of the opposing team. Applying a strong, dangerous substances to a player’s body does not provide fair treatment to other athletes who build their physical structure in natural ways. Most people realize what it takes to compete at a high level of sports, but the use of drugs taking place in the world has changed the opinions of many viewers. Although some people insist that doping should be legal, most do not realize the consequences of this action. Performance enhancing drugs have become a huge issue in today’s world of sports.