It is quite disturbing what some athlete would do in order to be considered a winner and in a famed survey that asked Olympians whether they would rather win a gold medal and die within 10 years or go on for the rest of their life and not win gold. Eighty percent of those surveyed said they 'd rather win the gold and die (Drehs). This …show more content…
In the 1890s a man by the name of John McGraw and his Baltimore Orioles decided to capitalize on the thin rule book baseball operated on. This team changed the rule book many times because of their uncanny ability to find a loop hole in the system. One way they would cheat was their habit of cutting bases when the umpire wasnt looking (running from first to third or second to home) (Zumsteg 7). This ended up causing a rule change that said runners must touch all bases in order and reverse order if they had to return (Zumsteg 7). These athletes show that even sports figures of yesterday were cheaters and did it all in the hopes to be