All the pressure
of the whole world watching you anticipating another title and waiting on your
victory speech, you know you’ve fooled them for over a decade already so why
stop now. I mean who’s actually going to win a Tour De France title without
banned drugs anyway right? Wrong. Typically we look at athletes as clean
competitors but however dated back to the 1980s doping cases have taken over
the professional world of sports. (Dilger) Some of the largest names in sports have been
tried and caught for cheating with banned drugs including Lance Armstrong. He
used banned drugs for many years and got away with it for the majority of time.
Just because athletes have gotten away with it before does not make it right.
No matter how you look at it, it’s a form of cheating.
These
athletes are looked up to by people around the world as heroes and competitors
when in reality some of them turn out to just be liars. The pressure for
athletes to succeed should be a reason to push yourself harder not to take the
easy way and use drugs that will help you to win. Doping in sports is an urgent
issue because it affects not only athletes themselves but agencies and fans
that stand behind these sports. Drug agencies are working on a way to prevent
it but there are still debates about sufficient ways to end doping in sports
all together. Lance was stripped of all 7 of his Tour De France titles but
should it have to get to that point? We need to put an end to doping before the
truthful athletes get second place.
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