Acceptance In Sport Essay

uccess in competition brings rank, recognition and distinction. Today athletes are looking for searching for an advantage over the field that will help make the winners. In a survey done in the 2000 Olympics half of all Olympics athletes admitted that they would be willing to take a drug even it would kill them. Eventually this type of ‘win at any cost’ mentality is pervading sports at all levels of competition and results in athletes felling coerced to use substances just to remain on par with other athletes. My essay will discuss the unfair advantage drugs create, what cont as a level playing field and finally whether drugs should be accepted in sport.

Sport should be about the recognition of natural talent. Yet performance enhancing drugs have the power to overcome differences in natural talent. The great value of sport teaches us the difference between winning and striving for superiority, the enhanced but much harder goal. More importantly, sport teaches us how to handle failure; to get up and try again when we lose. When performance enhancing comes into play that ruins the whole concept of one of the greatest lessons of life that if you fall you get up and try again. That you have to work hard to get what and where you want to be in life.

Some objectors would say that life isn’t a level playing field and neither is sport. The concept that everyone has the same chance in sport is outrageous. The viewing public want to see athletes pushing the bounds of possibility. They want to see the fastest runners, the biggest and strongest rugby players and so on. This can be no longer be achieved without the use of performance enhancing drugs. It is so easy to pass a drug test that so called doping control is effective only as a PR tool...

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...tia and Hirsuitism, but these do not impact anyone other than the athlete. Legalizing them would serve to better level the field, by giving those who might be reticent for legality reasons the ability to engage in these behaviours, in order to compete with their less scrupulous counterparts.

In conclusion, performance enhancing drugs have a harmful effect on the body and I can’t see why with all the recent news of disallowed 1st place wins, deaths rooted from undetected performance enhancing drugs uses in the past, people focused and determined over years, going into a competition and coming out a winner is more respected in my view than an athlete performing well on the day and later being found out to have cheated. That is just amplifying the injustice not setting an example for young athletes possibly breeding a new race of deceitful people in the world of sport