Strict Testing Persuasive Essay

Stricter testing is mandatory to prevent athletes doping

Every year athletes win medals and break records all while doping and getting away with it. With today’s technology, athletes and doctors have outsmart the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and have been able to dope but still test negative. This is a hard feat to accomplish due to the strict testing that the WADA requires of athletes. Albeit with the right doctors, testers, and coaches, athletes are able to accomplish this crime. The idea to have athletes dope in athletics has been around since the time of the original Olympic games in 776 BC. Opium was the choice drug to use in the original Olympics because of the numbing effect it produces. Since the time athletes used doping in athletics,

Although this testing is considered random, it still has the capacity to improve and actually be random. At the moment, drug testers will knock on your door without an athlete knowing beforehand. The flaw in this setup is that athletes know that the drug testers are in their city. Because of this flaw, athletes have the potential to decamp for a few days, not answer to the knock on their front door, or not show up to an athletic event they were signed up for to avoid being tested. These strategies have occurred several times throughout history. If Lance Armstrong knew the drug testers were in the area, but recently took a banned substance he would merely hide from the drug testers. Armstrong and his teammates would make last-minute travel changes or skip certain races (Honan, 2012). It is necessary for the WADA to disclose the location of their drug testers to ensure situations like Lance Armstrong do not happen. Disclosing the information of drug testers will also allow for testing to be completely random. The point of a random drug test is to allow officials to test athletes haphazard. An athlete will be caught in a drug test if they are doping out of the competition this

The majority of athletes believe in a level playing field, but the few who rationalize doping. Sports are a professional athlete’s full-time job; they get paid and supported by their sponsors. Fighting fires is a firefighter’s full-time job. Firefighters take major risks every time they run into a burning house about to fall to the ground and every time they run up a mountainside to stop the wildfire from reaching the proximate neighborhood. If we allow firefighters to take risks for their job, then why don’t we allow athletes to take risks for their job? Although some people do argue that we need to allow athletes the ability to dope because they are just taking a risk like every other profession, this argument does not disregard the fact that doping is still indeed cheating. No matter the that sports are an athlete’s full-time job, that is no excuse for them to dope and be justified for their action because they are taking a risk for their