Performance Enhancing Drugs have really given sports a black eye in the past 30 years or so. Athletes think they can gain the upper hand when they use steroids, but it deteriates their body and reduces the length of life. Now, many tests can be used to detect steroids in an athletes body, so more and more are getting busted. In Baseball leagues all around North America, athletes are getting caught and handed fines and suspensions. In the 90's to early 2000's, performance enhancing drugs were huge in baseball, and many records fell. Mammoth players stepped into the batter's box, and pitchers, who were just as large, threw fastballs never before seen. The order is now restored in baseball, and fewer then 40 baseball players get caught each year, None want to risk it. In the Olympics, many athletes still use them, and many got caught in Beijing. With more advanced technology for testing, the number of positive tests should continue to decline in the next 10 years.
So Neil, do you think that the event itself still has meaning if those using are getting caught? Do you think that there are some that re still not getting caught and therefore "tipping" the scales in some way or another.
Obviously some athletes get away with it somehow, but the number is very few. HGH is hard to detect in the body, an it leaves the system fast. Many athletes also use HGH to recover faster from injuries. The winter Olympics is clean for the most part, but the summer Olympics is full of "juicers." I still believe these games have their meaning, and even if athletes win while being on steroids, they can't keep it under their conscience. Marion Jones and Ben Johnson. 2 sprinters, were stripped of their medals after admitting to using performance enhancing drugs. The Olympics should be safe from cheaters win, now that the testing technology is up to date
I agree with you Neil. I think that if steroids were aloud in athletic competitions sports would be no fun. No Athlete would have pure talent anymore, it would all be due to drugs. Steroids ruin sports for everyone! It should never be alright for anyone in any sporting event to use performance enhancing drugs at anytime. I also agree with Neil in that even though some people get away with HGH the numbers are very small and getting smaller over the years.
Interesting comments about HGH. I initially was unsure what you were referring to so I put it into google. turns out you can buy human growth hormone online from several different web sites. there are also some pretty serious side effects, one being acromegaly, which is a rapid overgrowth of appendages. It seems that one may actually be able to visually see the effects of overuse os HGH. This does pose some interesting questions as HGH is naturally produced in the pituitary gland.
I completely agree with Justin and Neil on this one. Sports have always been about the skills, ever since they were first held in Greece. For an athlete to go through the trouble of trying to cheat a drug test, this shows just how much they actually care for their sport. In a way, they're really showing the world just how much they think they aren't good enough for the sport. Professional athletes train for extensive hours every day, so why would an athlete go out and come up with an entire background of information to help them cheat this test. Let's say a male athlete has been training since he was a kid just so he could make it to the Olympics for his sport. But as he grows older feels that he has to take a drug to enhance his performance out on the field/track/wherever there sport is held. So of course, they have to figure out a way around this, so they buy "The Original Whizzinator." A prosthetic penis that they can use to replace "dirty" urine with "clean" urine, thus helping them cheat the drug test. All of the time they spent on this, all of the guilt they would be feeling, all of that could have been spent training mentally and physically. Which would, in the long run, help them far more than the side effects/consequences of cheating a simple drug test.
I justs read an interesting article about a world class marathon runner and his suspension because of blood doping, read it and see all the reasons "why" athletes cheat
I couldn't really find anything in that article relating to "why" athletes technically cheat at the tests. However it's very intriguing to hear how calm he seemed. It would be interesting to know more about his thoughts on what he did in the past.
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Performance Enhancing Drugs have really given sports a black eye in the past 30 years or so. Athletes think they can gain the upper hand when they use steroids, but it deteriates their body and reduces the length of life. Now, many tests can be used to detect steroids in an athletes body, so more and more are getting busted. In Baseball leagues all around North America, athletes are getting caught and handed fines and suspensions. In the 90's to early 2000's, performance enhancing drugs were huge in baseball, and many records fell. Mammoth players stepped into the batter's box, and pitchers, who were just as large, threw fastballs never before seen. The order is now restored in baseball, and fewer then 40 baseball players get caught each year, None want to risk it. In the Olympics, many athletes still use them, and many got caught in Beijing. With more advanced technology for testing, the number of positive tests should continue to decline in the next 10 years.
So Neil, do you think that the event itself still has meaning if those using are getting caught? Do you think that there are some that re still not getting caught and therefore "tipping" the scales in some way or another.
Obviously some athletes get away with it somehow, but the number is very few. HGH is hard to detect in the body, an it leaves the system fast. Many athletes also use HGH to recover faster from injuries. The winter Olympics is clean for the most part, but the summer Olympics is full of "juicers." I still believe these games have their meaning, and even if athletes win while being on steroids, they can't keep it under their conscience. Marion Jones and Ben Johnson. 2 sprinters, were stripped of their medals after admitting to using performance enhancing drugs. The Olympics should be safe from cheaters win, now that the testing technology is up to date
I agree with you Neil. I think that if steroids were aloud in athletic competitions sports would be no fun. No Athlete would have pure talent anymore, it would all be due to drugs. Steroids ruin sports for everyone! It should never be alright for anyone in any sporting event to use performance enhancing drugs at anytime. I also agree with Neil in that even though some people get away with HGH the numbers are very small and getting smaller over the years.
Interesting comments about HGH. I initially was unsure what you were referring to so I put it into google. turns out you can buy human growth hormone online from several different web sites. there are also some pretty serious side effects, one being acromegaly, which is a rapid overgrowth of appendages. It seems that one may actually be able to visually see the effects of overuse os HGH. This does pose some interesting questions as HGH is naturally produced in the pituitary gland.
I completely agree with Justin and Neil on this one. Sports have always been about the skills, ever since they were first held in Greece. For an athlete to go through the trouble of trying to cheat a drug test, this shows just how much they actually care for their sport. In a way, they're really showing the world just how much they think they aren't good enough for the sport. Professional athletes train for extensive hours every day, so why would an athlete go out and come up with an entire background of information to help them cheat this test. Let's say a male athlete has been training since he was a kid just so he could make it to the Olympics for his sport. But as he grows older feels that he has to take a drug to enhance his performance out on the field/track/wherever there sport is held. So of course, they have to figure out a way around this, so they buy "The Original Whizzinator." A prosthetic penis that they can use to replace "dirty" urine with "clean" urine, thus helping them cheat the drug test. All of the time they spent on this, all of the guilt they would be feeling, all of that could have been spent training mentally and physically. Which would, in the long run, help them far more than the side effects/consequences of cheating a simple drug test.
I justs read an interesting article about a world class marathon runner and his suspension because of blood doping, read it and see all the reasons "why" athletes cheat
http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-521--13729-0,00.html
I couldn't really find anything in that article relating to "why" athletes technically cheat at the tests. However it's very intriguing to hear how calm he seemed. It would be interesting to know more about his thoughts on what he did in the past.
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