Enhanced or advanced?
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Hello everyone and welcome to my standpoint! Today I will be talking about the Enhanced Games and The Olympics and ask the question: are they at the same level? Well, let's find out togheter!
The Enhanced games right? What are they? Basically, they're an idea of a high league sports competition which lets athletes use enhancing drugs, something forbidden in the Olympics.
Now, why is that? It's because the Olympics are all about testing the limits of the actual human being in the sports department, something that is just so inspiring for athletes to make them more ambitious and dedicated in the sport they practice!
Here I come to my point now: if you would see a somewhat "cheating" athlete who wins the gold in the Olympics over a hard working athlete and all of this would be allowed, what path do you think the sports industry will take? I'm not saying that the Enhanced Games shouldn't exist because they could be a fun thing, but I don't think it should be a good idea for them to compete with the Olympics.
As an athlete myself I want to ask: where would the pride of practicing a certain sport go? I know something should be fun, but this just seems like someone who doesn't even know the true feeling of doing and loving a sport feels like just wants to earn some big cash over a sports competition.
Beacuse in the end, in sports you meet new opportunities, form new bonds and learn something new everyday. It's not all about winning, but it's mostly about what you love doing.
An example of an athlete that got their biggest passion taken away because of enhancing drugs is the famous Romanian tennis player Simona Halep. As a Romanian citizen myself, I know that, because she's in her 30s, she's taking some collagen supliments which are allowed in the sports industry, but a certain supplement which she took before a match was contaminated with an enhancing drug directly from the factory. So from this tiny mistake, the tennis player was put on a 4 year break, which was fortunately reduced at only 1 year and a half, but see what those little things can do to an athlete? That's the main reason why those drugs are banned.
So my final point is: this idea called The Enhanced Games should stay at an idea state, because in the end, the pride and hard work an athlete earns throughout years of learning and training is much more important than a one time competition where practically any athlete can win with ease.