Should sports allow Performance Enhancing Drugs?

Mahak preet kaur

Business diploma , Georgian college

COMM1016 - Section 206 - Communication Essentials 

Akanksha Sharma
November 8, 2022
Sports have become a integral part of any country as it offers
new opportunities to youth of country . There is lot of
competition among the athletes now days because of this many
athletes use various method to increase their performance and
most common is use of drugs or doping . This is considered
illegal but still many athletes do it . Many private athletic
institution had already stop their athlete to use these
methods .But there are some people who still considered that
doping should be allowed and there are some valid reasons for
it . Still, the argument over the statement “whether athletes
should be allowed to use performance enhancing drugs” . In
the following paragraphs I would discuss above mentioned
topic .
Many people believe that doping (use of performance
enhancing drugs ) should be made legal or it should be allowed
to athlete to use them. The reason of it is that sometimes due
to social pressure some athletes took this bad decision and
most of the times they get caught and it could ruin their entire
career and all the hard work so the players the decision made
under the pressure could not ruin their hard work . Some
people also think that if all athlete would at the peak of their
physical strength then the game will be very exciting to watch .
According to my opinion , even if there are some valid reason
to support this but still it is not right to allow drugs in sports as
it will not only affect the competitive spirit and sportsmanship
but it is also not good for the health of the athletes and it will
also affect their family .
The most important reason for opposing this issue is the health
of the athletes as the most common drug used for enhancing
the performance is steroid which has many side effects such as
high blood sugar , blurred vision and so on. The pleasure of
wining a game is different but it is not important than the
health of a person sometimes it can affect the family of
athletes as some of the side effect can be seen in their
upcoming generations .
Sometimes , the players who use drugs are not caught because
of the improving technology and are able to win the game . The
other player who do not use the drugs for wining the game and
done all the hard work for wining the match it would be
certainly unfair to them .
It could also decreases the competitive spirit of the players as if
doping would be allowed to everyone then no one will pay
attention to their training and will not do it sincerely and it will
some affect the spirit of the sports as no one will pay any
attention to improving themselves .Thus , there may be some
reason to support the statement but there are many reason to
disagree with it.