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.
