The Enhanced Games - Both sides of the story
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The topic that sparked my interest the most, was definitely The Enhanced Games. The Enhanced Games are another version of The Olympics but instead, performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) are not against the rules and can be used by the athletes. There have been many people debating whether the games should take place or not as everyone has different views upon the idea.
Some people believe that letting The Enhanced Games go ahead could potentially be a harmful and dangerous decision. These games would not be any ordinary versions of The Olympics; as said before, participants would be allowed to use PEDs. People are wondering whether these drugs could possibly have a negative effect on the athlete’s health. These competitors train their whole careers to compete in games like these to then throw it all away for the sake of others experimenting on them as if it is 'interesting' or 'fun'.
These performance enhancing drugs are not cheap. Therefore, less wealthy countries will not be able to compete leaving the wealthy countries with fewer teams to play against. Hence, many people believe that The Enhanced Games should not take place.
On the other hand, it is believed that if these games do go ahead that it would be interesting to see the different results found. With The Enhanced Games, athletes are able to follow their dreams by competing in the Olympic games and could even end up breaking world records. People are also discussing whether using PEDs could make The Olympics more entertaining or exciting for audiences as athletes will be able to jump, run and throw greater than they ever have before. They will also be capable of pushing themselves to their highest and fullest potential when playing sports, representing their countries as skilled and fantastic athletes.
In my personal opinion, I strongly agree with the first point made in this standpoint. It is an extremely dangerous and risky thing to do and we most definitely do not want our next generations to grow up thinking that using drugs in sports or even recreationally is an acceptable thing to do. Do we really want to send out the message that we can not achieve amazing things without performance enhancing drugs?
Comments (5)
I agree with you, performance enhancing drugs are risky. I think any performance given or world record broken after consuming PEDs wouldn't be actual and real talent of the athlete and it would be deceiving audiences. We still can't tell how PEDs affect the health of consumers, and they could have bad side effects too. If poorer countries cannot afford them then it would also create inequality in olympic games. I believe that we connot risk athletes' lives just for the sake of entertainment of audiences or for mere experiments.
I agree because in sports, giving your best is more important than winning. Even I feel that, drug consumers are just hiding their real personality and potential, which is not required. Secondly, they are breaking the trust of audience, because they may or may not know, which athlete has actually consumed drugs. Further more, according to sportsmanship, some athletes taking drugs and some not, is totally unfair. Finally, I don't really think that PEDs are actually needed, I feel audience still enjoy the Olympics game, where drugs are banned (however, some athletes use drugs), and change is important, but it is our responsibility to check whether the change would bring peace and it would be 'good' for everyone.
I agree with this standpoint, and steroids are very unhealthy. Steroids have long-term effects such as liver disease, severe mood swings, and kidney failure. Steroids should definitely be illegal in the games because we also don't want future generations to think this is the right thing to do. We should want the future generations to work hard to show their real performance, and not use the effects of a drug to perform for them. I think steroids should be considered cheating, because it is not fair that they get to use steroids to get stronger at a game. Another team might not be using steroids and using their real strength, so it would not be fair to the people that are doing the right thing, or the people watching the games.
I agree with you! I love how you included both sides of the story of the Enhanced Games. In paragraph #2 I loved when you said, "These games would not be any ordinary versions of The Olympics; as said before, participants would be allowed to use PEDs. People are wondering whether these drugs could possibly have a negative effect on the athlete’s health." I believe that we should not risk athletes physical health just for entertainment of the viewers.
I certainly agree, especially where you have said about the wealthy countries and non-wealthy countries and maybe the countries that do not have much money to buy the PEDs have a disadvantage of winning which is incredibly unfair.
I think PED's shouldn't be used as although it can increase your ability . you arent performing fairly and its not a display of talent there also fatal and life threatening side effects and its completely not worth the risk or reward . Finally it dosent showcase sportsmanship
I disagree with you awesome_speech as it will still show sportsmanship because it will still be about who trains the hardest and whose country can find the best performance enhancing drugs. Also the Enhanced Games are partnering with top scientists and clinicians to keep the athletes safe. As well as that, it has been confirmed that every competitor taking part in this new and exciting competition will be paid whilst in the Olympics most athletes are not paid. This will lead to more jobs where you can still fulfil your dream of being an athlete and receive enough money to be a full time athlete. Finally, taking these boosters could show us how far we can take our bodies whilst training hard.