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Why Do Athletes Use Performance Enhancing Drugs?

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In sports these days, many athletes, from teenagers reach to adults, are taking performance enhancing drugs just to improve their performance by giving them extra force to win titles and medals. By considering the impact of athletics who are taking drugs, people should calculate the bad of it, to prevent the risks, the credibility and the responsibility.

Firstly let’s start with the risk, there are different ways that using performance enhancing drugs can affect people’s life. One of the very important things to consider when people using the illegal substances are the health risk. There are a lot of physical problems than can come from performance enhancing drugs. In the article #2, it is written : “ There has been a spate of high-school-athlete suicides in the past decade associated with steroid abuse; teens are particularly at risk because the pattern of cycling on and off these drugs messes with their hormone levels, leading to mood and severe depression” Steroid.
Secondly, people are taking performance enhancing drugs because they want to win titles and medals but they forget the consequences when they get caught. “Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling; he deserves to be forgotten in cycling” said Pat McQuaid, the president of the cycling union ( Macur). In the following paragraph, McQuaid continues to say that Armstrong’s team had …show more content…

“ In order to stop use, coaches and parents must talk to their children early on about the effects- negative and positive - of steroids”. (Steroid). And Also, for the adult’s athletes, it is time to take their responsibility and show the society that they are true winner. Don’t try being a winner-loser. “ By early Tuesday, Armstrong’s biography on his Twitter page had been changed to no longer say he is the seven-time Tour de France winner”. Said Macur. What a

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