Should Performance-Enhancing Drugs Be Allowed In Sports Essay

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Athletes and PEDs Olympic star Armstrong Lance raced professionally from 1993 to 2011 and won seven consecutive Tour de France titles from 1999 to 2005. In 2012, those titles were confiscated after the U.S anti-doping agency found he had been using Performance-enhancing drugs(PEDs) in his cycling career. More famous athletes prove to have used banned drugs to enhance their performance from Rashid Ramzi, track and field to Mark McGwire, baseball. Performance enhancing drugs are called “performance-enhancing” for a reason; they help the athletes get stronger, muscular strength, perform better, train harder, and recover more quickly after an injury. This is why the role of the anti-doping agency is important in games such as Tour de France, the Olympic game. Nowadays, the question, should performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) be legalized has caused passionate debates. The use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) should be banned in sports and any athletes caught using performance-enhancing drugs have to be expelled because it would be a serious competitive disadvantage to other competitors who compete without the use of enhancing drugs, performance-enhancing drugs has a powerful influence on other athletes in the competition, PEDs violates the spirit of sports, and there are health risks associated with the use of PEDs. This essay identifies the main claims and the evidence used to…show more content…
The benefits of using PEDs are not worth the side effects. For example, corticosteroids may cause eye disorders, disorders of the nervous system, and increases in blood pressure. In a study 198 world class athletes were asked if they would take an undetectable drug that could grant them victory in any competition but the side effects would terminate them 5 years after taken. According to Lentillon-Kaestner et al. “Fifty-two percent of the athletes responded
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