Performance-enhancing in sports

by Mattia Laudi

By this time, most professional sport is for cheaters, people who don’t care about health or fair play.

This is a problem with regard to all those guys who really want to be a professional sportsmen, but they are not willing to use drugs and endanger their lifes.

In fact, currently, most part of professional sports, from soccer to football, is dominated by players on drugs, because they can have more strength, speed, cardio endurance, then every other clean player.

Steroids effects

A research conducted by Sports Illustrated in 1997 faced some athletes in front of two different scenarios: the first one was the choice between use or not use drug knowing that you will win every competition and you’ll never be caught, and one hundred and ninety-five choose to use drugs, three said no.

In the second scenario you were offered to use a banned performance-enhancing knowing that you will not be caught and you will win every competition for the next five years, and then you will die from the sides effect of the drugs. More then half of the athletes choose to use drugs.

This study shows how people are willing to use every kind of stuff to gain reputation and get an agreement with a professional team or a sponsor.

Often the associations like the International Olympic Committee say that they are doing a lot of testing on athletes to avoid the abuse of steroids, but I think they are not actually doing their best, otherwise the most part of the dugs abusers would be caught.

The real reason why they don’t do enough controls is that the business around drugs and sports is too much important to care about the health of thousands of athletes that endanger their lives to reach fame and their dreams.

Lance Armstrong

The athletes get their drugs through gurus specialized in the purchase of performance-enhancing. To procure steroids gurus goes to local doctors or in Tijuana, Mexico and they use smart techniques to avoid drug testers, like altering chemically the drugs, because each steroid has its own signature, but if you change the chemical composition it’s harder to be caught.

Usually afford the price of a monthly program is around $3000, but also athletes with little money can have their steroids, buying drugs chemically altered with simple components, obviously, less effective.

Gurus’ role is not just to sell drugs to athletes, but also make sure that steroids are administreted properly, with right dosage, in the right moment before a competition.

Whereas these alterations are adopted for the most part of  the steroids used by athletes, find some contermeasures could take a little time, but really it has to be done to give the chance to everybody to get into professional sport, and to avoid most part of death that are happening in hockey and football.