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Legalize Steroids - College Papers

Legalize Steroids

Olga Mariel Salcido
Professor Travis Phelps
English 101
11/05/2012

Legalize Steroids

Performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) are outlawed in professional sports for two important reasons: they give athletes an unfair advantage over the rest of the field and secondly they have harmful and potentially fatal effects on the body. Many famous and important athletes are facing charges for testing positive for drug use. For example: Melky Cabrera, a major league most valuable baseball player. After winning the MVP award, he got suspended for testing positive for high levels of testosterone [HYPERLINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone]. Another example is Lance Armstrong; the US ...

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Case For Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports" explain how it would help athletes if Anti-Doping Organizations legalize sports drugs.

The playing field would be even for all players, and also it would be at a higher level if enhancing drugs were legal. Chris Smith argues that steroids and doping will help athletes to perform at a level never seen before. Baseball players would pitch harder, home runs will go further and sprinters will run faster. Smith describes how sports leagues attempt to create an equal playing field by punishing athletes who test positive for drug use, but it is not working. Even though punishments are quite expensive and athletes' suspensions are all over the news, there is no reduction in the numbers of athletes caught cheating every year. On the other hand, Matthew Herper is convinced that some medicines do improve athletes' performance and that those who do not use them are at a severe disadvantage. He gives a famous example of cyclist Lance ...

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