Performance- Enhancing Drugs In Sports
Athletes Will Never Stop Using Performance Enhancing Drugs
The crusade against the use of performance- enhancing drugs in sports is being waged by the International Athletic Associations and their corporate sponsors, who publicly maintain that drugs violate the moral borders of clean athletic competition. However for the sporting organizations that strive for more fans and profits, they encourage drug use by demanding higher standards of achievements from athletes, only to condemn the athletes who get caught. By doing this, the sporting organizations are sending a mixed message to the athlete. By encouraging the athlete to take these drugs they are saying it's ok, But if you get caught using these these drugs we as a organization will condemn you and do what is necessary to cover up. To protect themselves from ridicule. Drug use in any form is wrong. And for our professional athletes to be using them is not only wrong but unmoral also. When our children look-up to these athletes and want to be like them. What message are they sending when they get caught using drugs? That it is alright to use drugs to get ahead in life. For this reason, a heavy penalty should be placed upon the athlete and also on the organization that the athlete plays for.
Florence Griffith Joyner ("Flo-Jo") died, at age 38 from heart seizure in September 1988. Before her death a shadow of suspicion hung over her performance in the Seoul Olympics in 1988 due to the physical traits of steroid use. The muscular form and heavy voice she had. Then her early retirement announcement abruptly in 1989, just when random drug testing was introduced. People where already saying she (Flo-Jo) was using performance-enhancing drugs.( New Statesman,LTD 1998)
Debate
The death of Flo-Jo throws the spot light back on the debate over drugs in sports they do not belong. They are unhealthy, can cause a number of problems for the athletes. (Kuiper.H Anabolic Steriods: Side...
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