Should performance enhancing drugs be allowed in professional sports?
Nowadays, every category in sports are becoming more and more competitive. This leads to experience new world records and astonishing performances in order to become the number one. However, this phenomenon brings a bad side as well. Some athletes start to consider using performance enhancing drugs to be a step closer to be the best. However, there are several reasons to avoid trying them. Some of them are the drug addiction, the view that this leaves to the fans and the loss of sportsmanship.
Firstly, these drugs can create dependence. Some performance enhancing drugs are narcotic analgesics, which reduces temporary the pain caused by fatigue of damage and creates a severe addiction on the person that took it. Obviously, this drug is illegal in
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Every athlete has at least one fan and, when this athlete is caught cheating to win using drugs, they leave their fans disappointed. One clear example of this is Lance Armstrong, was without a doubt, one of the most inspirational athletes of all time. The fans could relate to him as a cancer survivor, but they were also impressed by him famously ‘winning’ the Tour de France seven times. Later he admitted that he used testosterone, human growth hormone as well as EPO, which is a hormone produced by the kidneys to stimulate the red cells production. His confession left his reputation on the floor and left a bad view in cycling championships in Europe. He does not participate in sports events anymore and he is now having many lawsuits against him by his former sponsors. Nowadays, the urine test in these events is mandatory and a positive result will lead to the athlete’s downfall. All of these athletes were severally sanctioned and most of them cannot participate in sport events anymore. The use and the discovery of the use of these drugs leave a bad point of view in sports in