Why Do Athletes Use Steroid?
Steroids
Back in the 1930’s when you looked in the sports page of the newspaper; everything would be great stories of incredible sports events and feats. But now, when you look at the sports pages in the newspaper, it’s all about steroids and cheating in sports. One of the biggest issues in sports today is the severity in danger of athletes using steroids or performance enhancing drugs. Illegal doping is the process of using steroids or other performance enhancing drugs while participating in a sport. I don’t think that athletes should be allowed to take performance enhancing drugs or any other type of steroid because it ruins the authenticity of the game, it’s a hazard to the health of players, and it will cause an unnecessary spike in statistics and make players a lot more susceptible to injuries. If steroids were harmless, and posed no threat to athletes, they would be completely fine. But since they are as risky as they are, they really aren’t good for the sport in my opinion.
The one thing that could possibly prevent athletes from taking steroids, are the drug tests that most teams administer. Teams from all around sports are giving players drug tests, and finding results to be quite surprising. Ryan Braun, a star baseball player from the Milwaukee Brewers, tested positive for performance enhancing …show more content…
Investigations started in 2004, and are still going on as we speak. Clemens won two World Series Championships over his illustrious 23 year careers. He was most well known for his bad temper, and he often threw at batters’ heads. He was nicknamed “the Rocket”, and for a good reason. Because just one spark, and he’ll shoot off (like a rocket). It is clear to many people that Clemens took steroids. A person doesn’t get that big without using some sort of drug. As I said earlier, working out can only get a player so
Back in the 1930’s when you looked in the sports page of the newspaper; everything would be great stories of incredible sports events and feats. But now, when you look at the sports pages in the newspaper, it’s all about steroids and cheating in sports. One of the biggest issues in sports today is the severity in danger of athletes using steroids or performance enhancing drugs. Illegal doping is the process of using steroids or other performance enhancing drugs while participating in a sport. I don’t think that athletes should be allowed to take performance enhancing drugs or any other type of steroid because it ruins the authenticity of the game, it’s a hazard to the health of players, and it will cause an unnecessary spike in statistics and make players a lot more susceptible to injuries. If steroids were harmless, and posed no threat to athletes, they would be completely fine. But since they are as risky as they are, they really aren’t good for the sport in my opinion.
The one thing that could possibly prevent athletes from taking steroids, are the drug tests that most teams administer. Teams from all around sports are giving players drug tests, and finding results to be quite surprising. Ryan Braun, a star baseball player from the Milwaukee Brewers, tested positive for performance enhancing …show more content…
Investigations started in 2004, and are still going on as we speak. Clemens won two World Series Championships over his illustrious 23 year careers. He was most well known for his bad temper, and he often threw at batters’ heads. He was nicknamed “the Rocket”, and for a good reason. Because just one spark, and he’ll shoot off (like a rocket). It is clear to many people that Clemens took steroids. A person doesn’t get that big without using some sort of drug. As I said earlier, working out can only get a player so