For all of my life I’ve been involved in sports. I’ve always tried to be an all natural athlete, meaning no steroids, no growth hormones, and no pro hormones to enhance my athletic ability. I’ve always been against using those supplements because it is looked on as “cheating” in today’s society. Recently I watched a documentary about steroids called Bigger, Stronger, Faster, and that opened my eyes that those supplements may not be as bad for us as the media puts it off to be. The movie starts off by showing how all of the mainstream superstars that we’ve heard of as kids all used steroids such as Mark McGuire, Hulk Hogan, Sammy Sosa, Arnold Schwartzenager, etc. The movie then talks about how all of them used steroids and pro hormones and how the use of those substances helped their athletically ability out tremendously. The movie goes on to show steroids aren’t the only thing that can enhance athletic ability. Take Tiger Woods for example. He got surgery on his eyes to make his vision 25/15. No other human alive has as good eye site as Tiger Woods does. Does Tiger changing his genetics to benefit his golf game make him a cheater? When Mark McGuire took steroids to help out his baseball game he got bashed, I don’t understand why it’s not the same for Tiger Woods. There was another scene in the movie where a runner slept in an oxygen tank overnight to make him have more red blood cells, therefore making his oxygen flow better, thus making him be able to run for longer. Why is that legal? He’s changing his genetics the same way steroids is putting more testosterone in Sammy Sosa’s body. If anything steroids is less significant of a substance than either of the other offenses because steroids is simply testosterone, it doesn’t change ones genetic genes at all. So what makes steroid use so bad in sports if people are getting advantages in other ways? Knowing now that steroid use isn’t the only way to get help to enhance your athletic ability what is your input on steroids and sports. In my opinion all is fair in love and war and if others are getting an advantage by having surgery to enhance they’re play I don’t know why supplements should be banned. My question to you all is, should steroids be legal in sports? Why or why not.
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No, definitely not a good idea to make steroids legal. It is completely unhealthy and ruins the sport. It would turn sports in to which team paid the most money to juice up their players to win. It would turn athletes in to lab rats to find the steroid that enhances the person the most. It would undermine natural skill and extraordinary feats.
ReplyDeleteI do not agree with any type of steroid use or genetic enhancement for athletes to improve in their sport. Whether things like this are legal or illegal, they will still continue to be done. But, I strongly believe that this is not the way sports were meant to be played. It turns a great game or great athletic feat into a man-made experiment, basically. It would take away from the many athletes who have been training their whole lives, have raw talent, and have worked incredibly hard to reach a goal.
ReplyDeleteI don't think steroids should be legal in sports. For one, it is dangerous and two, it is not natural to each person's body. The drugs are made for what is deemed as "normal" in society. What people may not realize, these drugs can have drastic affects on some whose body type isn't normal. Scientists can't mass produce a drug for the typical person. There will be people who take it and reactive adversely to it. People should be pushing themselves in a healthy way in order to become better, bigger, faster and stronger. Some people have become lazy when wanting to achieve these results and they use drugs to get there. All of these weight loss commercials advertise pills and programs to quickly shed the pounds while other commercials advertise products to beef up. People can't quickly and effectively take these products because as soon as they take them, they see the side effects and it isn't pleasing. They lose the weight or lose the muscle. Continual exercise and building of muscle in a healthy way is the best for anyone. You just have to dedicate more time and knowledge of the body and muscles in doing so.
ReplyDeleteNo, I don’t steroids should be legal because I do think that it is a type of cheating and I personally think it ruins the sport a bit. I mean, I lose respect for both the game and the player. But I also don’t think it’s fair to change your genes either. I think what Tiger Woods did was cheating and I think the runner who slept with the oxygen tank is cheating too. The only difference is that I don’t think a lot of people know that there are these methods of cheating out there. I sure didn’t. I think if we brought as much attention to vision correction or oxygen tanks as we do steroids, people might think it’s a bit fairer the way we decide what’s cheating and what’s not. Because personally, I think all of these methods are cheating. You should be a good athlete because you have talent and you train hard and long, not because you have the money to pay for other means of getting what you lack in talent.
ReplyDeleteNo I do not thing steroids should be legal. Not only are you cheating yourself, but both your teammates and the actual sport. It is not fair for the athletes that work so hard to get the result they want when one of their teammates just sits on his ass and just injects liquid into his arm.
ReplyDeleteI think it should be just personal preference. I think steroids with needles are gross and over doing-it/bad for your body, but I think that healthy protein like creatine is good for athletes. Anything to help your game mentally and physically is great; just for guys though. Girls who take steroids are gross and manly. I have never taken any steroids and never want to, but I like to take vitamins and natural pills that help with muscle function and prevention.
ReplyDeleteI dont think steroids should be legalized, or any other kind of enhancements. It is unfair to have an advantage over someone because one athlete can pay for his skills while everyone else must work. It is also unhealthy and dangerous. I do not think steroids should be legalized.
ReplyDeleteTo compare Tiger Woods and Mark McGuire is completely different. Tiger enhanced his vision, but even without enhancing his vision he was still the best golfer in the world. By making his vision better he can just the golf ball better and the only time he needs to see the golf ball is when its stationary but there really is no advantage. Mark McGuire however took steroids to gain muscle and power so he could hit the ball further. By hitting the ball further he would get more homeruns and would his team win. Not to mention that steroids have a negative impact on your body whereas enhancing your vision doesn't. Steroids should not be allowed in any sport not only because of the harm it causes your body but also its makes the respected game unnatural. That's where the fun in the game is, to see the best players with the best natural talent play, not average players that take drugs and become superstars, there's no fun in that.
ReplyDeleteSteroids shouldn't be allowed in sports, it will ruin the sport. I think each person should compete using only their natural abilities. Seems like the sports world is also taking this pretty serious because they keep banning products that they think may give athletes an advantage over others.
ReplyDeleteI loved that movie and it was very informative and entertaining. Steroids should not be allowed in professional sports because it ruins the game and falsifies athleticism and can become addictive and impossible to stop. The only sport I can think of is World's Strongest Man contest where they don't test for steroids.
ReplyDeleteNo way! it gives an unfair advantage to high paid, cheating athletes. And they also damage the body! Why would a high paid athlete risk his health just to be better. Instead, they should work harder.
ReplyDeleteSteroids should not be legal in athletics. They give an absolutely unfair advantage. Tiger woods surgery was just a ridiculous expense, but whats the difference between what he did then just buying an expensive golf club that helps you put better. Athletes workout in high altitudes which offers less oxygen so when they are forced to perform at lower altitudes it is way easier for them.
ReplyDeleteI also disagree with the opinion that steroids should be made legal in sports. Though you did make the point that there are other ways to enhance the body, I find steroids to be more dangerous in that steroids create more bad than good.
ReplyDeleteIt really comes down to whether or not they should regulate your body to that degree. I mean, they should be able to disallow alcohol for obvious reasons. But if you have steroids legal and it makes those people exponentially stronger, eventually everyone would NEED to take them to keep up with the people that are, so then it becomes a standard to take a drug to play...which sucks. SO to keep things fair, they would have to suspend "self-deteriorating" methods of muscle building. That would rule out anything with any amount of lasting negative side effects, including steroids and possibly that oxygen thing.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe that steroids should be legal in sports. In my personal opinion, its a different form of cheating. There are other ways to get stronger. I also think it's taking the easy way out of really working hard.
ReplyDeleteSteroids are completely different from eye surgery or or sleeping in a hyperbolic chamber. Perfect sight is not necessary to be a great athlete as many do it with average sight relying only on their athletic prowess. As for the chamber, an athlete is only gaining access to pure oxygenated air to aid in recovery from work. Steroids are a differently different matter. They allow an athlete to preform faster, stronger, and longer. Anyone can be a superstar with steroids, and that would defeat the purpose of paying to watch sports if anyone can do it. If you don't think steroids are bad, Jose Cansenco once went after a fly ball and it bounced off his head and over the fence. Look at Shawn Merriman, once a great pass rusher became a below average player once he went off steroids. Also for men, they receive permanent damage to their reproductive system.
ReplyDeleteno definitely not.. it is not fair and would make the biggest fight and controversy ever!!! That would be taking an easy way out instead of working hard.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like there are different levels of "steroids" some people classify steroids as only drugs and medications and others include natural vitamins and supplements as steroids so if we're talking steroids which are chemicals/drugs used which dramatically affect performance, then i am against it.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, steroids should remain illegal in sports. If talent in a sport comes from dedicated time from training, it wouldn't be fair to athletes who actually work for their achievements for someone that takes steroids to just come into the game and overtake them. Although some steroids may be okay to take, the ones that artificially improve athletic performance and ability should never be allowed. It's practically the same thing as using cheat codes in a video game; it's for losers.
ReplyDeleteWe should not use steroids in sports, these drugs are proven to be very unhealthy for people. also is just no right. It is not natural and although some can be used in medicine to help people, pumping athletes with these drugs just plain not sportsmanlike.
ReplyDeleteHonestly i think that it should be fair to do whatever you want to do to your body to enhance it. If you have the money and the option then go right ahead. If you can still win without doing anything to yourself then more power to you. But to tell you the truth, the reason steroids and other enhancers are illegal in sports is because of how bad they are for you. They are not healthy and no one wants an unhealthy athlete playing for their team. That is why Tiger Woods could get his surgery without ridicule. That surgery was not unhealthy, yeah there was a risk he could have ruined his vision but that was on him. Dying is not good, that is why steroids are illegal.
ReplyDeleteI think steroids shouldn't be legal in sports. If most people started using steroids, the real natural athletes with all of the talent that made them that great would be insanely good, and most of the other players would probably have to resort to using steroids to keep up with their opponents. Using steroids is probably not healthy for you so it would be a terrible standard to set for athletes. On top of that, people want to go to sports games to see extremely talented natural athletes, not a group of men all jacked up on steroids, which I think loses some of the magic of watching professional players play their respective games.
ReplyDeleteI don;t think steroids should be legal in sports. I am all for natural vitamins and supplements that help your body in it's natural functions but actual injection of steroids, I think, is cheating and legalization of such steroids would promote the use of a drug that harms someone's bod yin the long run.
ReplyDeleteSteroids should absolutely stay out of sports. Steroid use can be very damaging to your body in both the short term and long term. It is all around unhealthy to use abuse these drugs the way so many athletes have. In the end it wouldn't bother me one way or another if people wanted to damage their bodies by using steroids. In sports however it's a different story. Those who use steroids in sports have an edge against the rest of their opponents. Even if steroids were legal, there would still be those athletes who aren't willing to damage their body for the edge. As a result the use of steroids in sports is unfair and unsportsmanlike.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Steroids should be legal in sports. Not only are they detrimental to your health, but the side effects are both short and long term. Steroids can cause roid rage, water retention, atrophy of the testicles, Gynecomastia, acne and high cholesterol. Also, it is kind of unfair that a person puts in the time and effort and actually works for his achievements rather than just sticking needles into yourself to play the game better. Yes, there are steroids out there that are fine to take, but then again you can never be too sure. The people who take this want results fast and want to just simply be better, but atleast for me, I get satisfaction in knowing I worked my butt off to get to where I am, rather than cheating my way through it.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it is in the best interest for athletes to have steroids be legalized. Why? Well the first blatant reason is that it gives people an unfair advantage over others. If steroids would be legalized, almost every athlete would have to start taking them because that will be the 'standard' of the game. Just look at gatorade. Yes, gatorade is a great sportsdrink, but what happens if gatorade was made illegal? There would still be people who would drink it, but since it is a better supplement than plain water, those people who take it will have an unfair advantage over others. Making people who don't drink it almost be forced to because of the gains.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely not, it gives them an edge they wouldn't otherwise have but is.also very harmful if abused.
ReplyDeleteI grew up playing baseball so I've always been around the sport that has gotten the worst reputation for steroid use. I believe that yes steroids should be banned from all sports. It is cheating in the worst way. When you take steroids you are simply proving that you don't have what it takes to be naturally the best athlete. Anyone that has to cheat to get to the top doesn't deserve to be there. For example Barry Bonds is the current home run king, but since being caught taking banned substances his record has been tarnished.
ReplyDeleteI do not think steroids should be allowed in sports, sports should be based off ones true athletic ability. If people were allowed to use steroids it would not be a fare game because someone have the greater advantage. IN all, steroids should not be allowed in sports or sporting events because there is always going to be that unfair advantage over another athlete.
ReplyDeletei dont think steroid use should be allowed in sports. It gives the steroid user an unfair advantage over the rest of players, and is technically cheating since it is not using your talents and skills to win and be competitive.
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