Performance Enhancing Drugs

They all aid athletes during competition or aid in helping an athlete to achieve their goal. The purpose of this essay is to discuss whether or not athletes should take performance enhancing drugs. When an athlete uses illegal and some legal performance enhancing drugs they have an unfair advantage over the others competing. For example, when Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson broke the world record at the Olympics, but was later found out to have tested …

…in a gym when they can easily inject this dirt into them? No athlete has time to spend in the gym, its either now or never for them. But again they do not look at the negative effects that the drugs will take on their body. In conclusion, athletes feel pressure from mostly everyone around them. However, that does not give them the right to take these drugs for it gives them an unfair advantage.