ENC 1102 Ms. Politte February 27‚ 2014 Risk vs. Reward: Using Performance-Enhancing Drugs The steroids era in not only Major League Baseball‚ but in all professional sports really began in the early 1990s. In MLB‚ the commissioner‚ Byron Johnson‚ turned a blind eye to the players who were using PED’s because he wanted to draw fans back to the stands to see more homeruns. This worked for a while and then the use became illegal. Then MLB started testing their players in the early 2000s because
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Why do athletes take performance enhancing drugs? There are many reasons. These range from the athlete being driven by the craving for success and the rewards that come with it‚ to the sheer desire to reach the goal that they set when they first started out in their sport e.g. win Olympic gold. The athlete may not be good enough to achieve these targets through the professional athlete lifestyle alone‚ and so turn to performance enhancing drugs in order to do so. From a philosophical point of view
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Drugs in Sport The use of drugs in sports goes back a long-long time‚ in fact back to the original Olympics held from 776 to 393 BC. Old texts suggest that humans were always trying to find ways to do more work with less effort (work hard but suffer less). This caused them to find‚ invent & use drugs or supplements. Thus people began using drugs & performance enhancers. Doping is the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport‚ it is illegal‚ but the use of drugs completely isn’t. That
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Consider if steroids were legal‚ how much more exciting sports would be and t would be fair to everyone. Why: As an athlete and competing in a high level sport‚ I easily understand athletes and their reasons for doping in sports. At a high level you’re always striving to be the best you can be ad better than your opponents to win. Also‚ as a candidate for the Provincial and National Team for Canada I have experience in knowing what you need to know and expect while participating in these events
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Sport is so much a part of daily life for so many Australians. An Australian child is brought up to idolise their sporting heroes and to pursue the sport itself. It is devastating to think that maybe our sporting heroes are cheats. Today students are being pressured to perform at higher levels to make the first team‚ representative side or a sporting scholarship at a Greater Public Schools (GPS) which then could lead to the opportunity to make a break into the professional sporting teams. With the
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Should athletes use performance enhancing drugs ? Man has been trying to improve themselves physically through training and eating healthy for years but the discovery of performance enhancing drugs changed the game for everyone. One after another new ways of improving an athlete’s straight and injuries with minimal training and maximal improvement. Some athletes and trainers looked to drugs to give them the upper hand on their opposition. Some people look at using drugs to build bigger and better
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Drugs and Sports - Athletes on Steroids As the use of performance enhancing drugs is becoming more popular among athletes‚ many of them don ’t understand the risks involved in taking these drugs. Many people are looking for a quick way to build muscle‚ or to get stronger the fastest way possible. Using these performance aids may very well be a quick fix for many athletes‚ but taking these supplements is unethical and dangerous. Using special drugs to boost an athletes performance is degrading
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Performance enhancing drugs should not be allowed in sports. Performance enhancing drugs should not be allowed in sports. As plain and simple as my opening sentence reads and I totally believe in the theory. The theory that not only are the drugs un-healthy in prolonged use‚ but the fact that it allows for an unfair advantage over other players who are competing legitimately‚ and is 110% cheating. This also gives the youth a positive idea if they see their role models take enhancers‚ leading them
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Drugs in Sport Prescription Drugs- A prescription drug (also prescription medication or prescription medicine) is a licensed medicine that is regulated by legislation to require a medical prescription before it can be obtained. Performing Enhancing Drugs- Performance-enhancing drugs are substances used by athletes to improve their performances. Stimulants- Stimulants stimulate the body and mind to perform optimally by enhancing focus‚ energy‚ and aggression. Some examples are caffeine‚ amphetamine
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Introduction Drugs‚ one of the most dangerous things ever to be created by mankind. They have been responsible for numerous deaths as well as problems of some of the most prolific people to ever walk the face of this planet. Not only that‚ it has ruined the careers of numerous high profile athletes all because the money and the fame got to them. Not only did they abuse drugs but also performance enhancing drugs which ended their career permanently. Examples like this are Diego Maradona and his
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