Steroids are constantly being used in sports to gain an advantage over the competition. In almost every sport using performance enhancing drugs is illegal and will not be tolerated. Because of the rise in steroid use over the past years, many teams will choose to test athletes before they compete and sometimes before they join the team.
Testing for drugs starts off with a urine sample. This may sound simple but it requires a highly regulated procedure to make sure the sample comes from the athlete in person, with no opportunity to tamper with the sample. For the sample to be tested correctly, you must obtain 30ml of urine. You must be sure that the sample is real and actually comes from the athlete. So much is on the line for these athletes that they may go about getting another persons urine and switching it with their own. Acquiring a real sample is very important for the test. The urine is then sent to the lab to be processed and analyzed. If the results come back positive a second test may be taking just to make sure that the first test was correct.
Does this violate the athlete’s rights as a human? Some may say that this protocol seems excessive and violate certain rights of privacy and decency. There are many accounts of athletes using elaborate methods of trying to cheat this test. One way athletes try to do so is by bringing condoms filled urine without and drugs in it.
What do you think? Is this process necessary in sports? Personally I think that these tests need to be given in every single sport, even in high school. It is giving players an unfair advantage and it needs to be stopped.
I think steroids are good for the game of baseball. They make players bigger, stonger, and faster. The game becomes more exciting for the fans because they see the best athletes in the world being better then they already were.
ReplyDeleteI feel that the process is very necessary for the game, if all of the player in the MLB used steroids than kids would think that it is ok for them to use. Steroids are bad for the body it does damage to all sorts of organs and people die from prolonged usage.
ReplyDeleteI had heard of athletes usign steroids or a milder form of the same substance even at high school levels and I don't think it's fair, especially when some high schools will drug test and some wont while most professional or even college team will, creating somewhat even playing feild.
ReplyDeleteIts sad to hear athletes using enhancers for the sport. Many athletes are idols and when you see that they are taking the easy way out its very disappointing. The ones who actually play to their potential and push themselves with their natural talents are the only true athletes today because all the rest of fake.
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