The Enhanced Games : Is Doping Fair?
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Today I will discuss on the following topic, “The Enhanced Games : Is Doping Fair?” First, let’s discuss what exactly The Enhanced Games are. Basically, The Enhanced Games are similar to The Olympics but there is a difference between them two which is pretty simple to know, The Olympics strictly bans the usage of Performance-Enhancing-Drugs or allow Doping, but on the other hand in The Enhanced Games, Doping is allowed whether you use the Performance-Enhancing-Drugs or no. It’s that the athletes aren’t checked for Performance-Enhancing-Drugs.
Personally, I think doping isn’t fair as a ridiculous amount of athletes use these Performance-Enhancing-Drugs, about 44% of athletes use them! But only 1% are caught during The Olympics. Some of the Performance-Enhancing-Drugs are hard to detect. It’s not fair as the others who don’t use Performance-Enhancing-Drugs are trying their best as they still lose because they can’t afford the Performance-Enhancing-Drugs while on the other hand, rich athletes might not be skilled, but after the usage of such Performance-Enhancing-Drugs, they are extremely skilled. They can afford it, while others can’t. This is causing a big problem in the sports industry as they are extremely hard to detect.
Another defect is that these Performance-Enhancing-Drugs are bad for our mental, physical and psychological health. As these can lead to unusual growth of body parts. These can also kill people if used in high amounts. “A 23-Year-Old body builder who has used Anabolic Steroids Along with Other Performance-Enhancing-Drugs Has Died.” I got this information from the internet as it is fascinating to see people die due to the use of these Performance-Enhancing-Drugs.
This is all for this standpoint!
Comments (2)
Doping is not fair because it can cause serious damage to your health . It can cause both physical and mental health problems to the athletes. It can also lead to addiction which is very dangerous and hard to overcome.
It can lead to athletes having low self esteem and loosing confidence in their ability to perform well without taking performance enhancing-Drugs.
Another problem with doping is that it discourages living a healthy lifestyle of eating a healthy balanced diet because athletes think that taking the drugs is enough which is not true, leading to long term health problems.
Personally, I disagree with the Enhanced Games because it is unfair and dangerous. I think it is unfair because the athletes who are deciding to not take the drugs, will probably not get much attention or credit for the hard work they have put in to achieve great things. People will not acknowledge the fact that the athletes in the Olympics are training very hard to get their rewards (in my opinion rightfully.) Furthermore, it is dangerous since drugs are very harmful. Drugs are only going to make people's bodies 'superhuman' for a short amount of time and then hurt their bodies later. In 1967, drugs were banned from the Olympics, partly because of the harm they were doing to the athletes so we have had experience and we do know the affects that they could have on our bodies.
The athletes have a decision to make.