Performance Enhancing Drugs (Gabby)

Performance enhancing is being used more and more by the years and is becoming a habit to some athletes. In my opinion doing drugs on your sport is just cheating on your own passion for it. It’s making it easier for the people who don’t know how to work hard for something or at least upgrade on their own health. I don’t believe that athletes should be allowed to use a drug to make them stronger or faster. Athletes are supposed to be role models for the younger people who look up to them and to their own children as well. By them taking drugs for better performance in their sport it will make the younger children that admire them think the same way and they will start doing the same thing as the athletes. Taking drugs to become faster and stronger isn’t teaching anybody any lessons on how to work hard for what you want in life. Also athletes that take drugs aren’t really doing any good for their own health. Drugs can cause you to get cancer, change of hormones or other serious conditions. Also athletes that take drugs for better performance in their sport are making themselves look selfish by taking the fame away from other athletes that do work hard for what they want without using any drugs. I honestly don’t get what the point of using drugs is on an athlete, if they became what they are it’s because they were willing to give their sweat into it!

Performance Enhancing Drugs (Erick)

1. What do you think about performance enhancing drugs? Should athletes be allowed to take them to be stronger and faster? Why or why not?

What I think about performance enhancing drugs is that it’ is used to make people stronger, faster, and to be in better conditions as well as in good shape. No I do not think athletes should be taking them to become stronger and or faster because its cheating and then you’ll ask yourself where is the real talent if there using drugs for everything. This is why I say our athletes should not take them because then what is the point of having competition if everything is going to be a big lie because there cheating consuming drugs to become better. To me that is just not acceptable and should never at all happen. Also why I say this is because drugs do you no good and as time goes by drugs will end up killing you leaving you with nothing but shame so it is better if you try your best and practice to be good at something then just to take drugs and end up dying years later. So if your reading this then you have been warned and with this I then given my statement of why athletes should not al all for any reason take performance enhancing drugs.

Performance Enhancing Drugs (Adrian)

 I think performance enhancing drugs are pretty dumb is just a cheat to get the body you want without even working hard for it. They can also cause anger and mood swings so it just makes it even worse to take them. I think athletes should not be allowed to take them. The reason I think athletes should not take the drugs is because when a young fan see’s them they want to be just like that so they will end up taking the drugs as well and before they know it there mad and depressed and they might not be able to get off the drug.

 The book I am reading is about this young freshmen in high school and he wants to be the best runner back in the team so he starts to take steroids and when he takes the drug his friends see him change and don’t want to be with him he is getting strong but is loosing friends he also throws a way a girl that he likes and just chooses the drug over her. His friend tells him that he is acting different and he gets mad and just starts punching him and as he is doing that he notices that he is changing and the drug is taking over his body. But he cant get of the drug because he is so addicted to the power and it ends up ruining his friendship.

  So that’s why I don’t think performance drugs are good because they can really mess you up.

Performance Enhancing Drugs (Selena)

I think that performance enhancing drugs are not good, athletes should not take them to be stronger because that is a form of cheating they can use that method for cheating or to be stronger than the other person(s) they re going against with! Well I don’t think athletes play any kind of role model they might just be good at something but me, I really don’t find athletes as important. Unlike other people they are like their heroes I’m just like OH WOW if all they do is throw a ball and that’s it and they are winner number one. Well some athletes should not be role models because some do drugs, cheat, or stuff alike! And if they cheat or something the fans get sad or we get mad at them! Or they could even argue for their favorite athlete… They might say no my athlete won and then the other person might say he won because she cheated and then there you go next thing you know they are fighting! That’s why I am just like ugh sports are just big drama! Our country does care much about sports because there is the chiefs the royals and all of that I remember once I went to the royals game I was alike what in the world is this! I have no idea what they were doing then I asked my friend and he told me everything I was just like wow! We do place athletes over everybody else well not much because I don’t I place singers over every body else I love music! Athletes can cause many problems and many arguments as well!

Performance Enhancing Drugs (Lesly)

I think that is just plain retarded.  Athletes should not be allowed to take drugs because that would be cheating. Athletes play a huge role in our society because many people want to be like them, athletes are many people’s idols and role models. Many fans would want to do the same thing they are doing. My country does care about sport some people do put athletes on top of every one because their better players at the sport then we are. Many people would actually die to be one day with a player because they are so into them that the do not realize that they would die if they get really close that that play do you understand me? . If that person idol take drug an d make them better players the person would take drugs to become better at something as well, some people would actually kill to be meet that player or get into huge argument because they want to be the only that get to meet that player but don’t realize that that same player id the role model to many other people and the other people would kill as well for that player so if you go to meet that player and other people are there and want to be the only one there they are going to get in an a huge argument 

Performance Enhancing Drugs (Gustavo)

What do you think about performance enhancing drugs? Should athletes be allowed to take them to be stronger and faster? Why or why not?

Should athletes be able to use drugs to make them better at sport they’re playing why or why not?

No I believe a Sport is physical activity with rules and regulations used to build character and teach life lessons. Drug in sport would defeat its purpose and aid to health risks. It creates in unfair advantage. Even if the laws were lifted this would be a false argument. An opposing player would have to take the drug to even compete. This would make the game "unfair!" Performance enhancing drugs should be banned because it’s unfair, as because someone might train hard for a year so that they can win a race, and then someone takes some drugs a week or month before a race which then make them win. It’s also unfair because they may put less effort than a normal athlete but achieve higher standards because of the drug they have injected/taken. Drugs can also affect your own health and by taking them it means you’re putting your own body at risk of unhealthy issues or anger issues. Drugs shouldn’t be allow at any sport for no reason, sports are not meant for everyone. But if you are  a athlete, be legit in take pride for your work in training in do the right thing.