Why Should'nt i dope

Why should’nt i dope

In the past, there had been many people who dope themselves with high performance drugs. Philip Adam, a competitor in Shooting, was found to have dope himself with Hydrochlorothiazide. Similarly, Shoaib Akhtar, a competitor in the game of cricket, was also found with Nandrolone and was eventually suspended from the game. Indeed, why do people dope themselves with these drugs? Possibly, it was for 2 main reasons: Pressure and the desire to outshine their fellow competitors. Following that, we shall mention about the consequences of doping and we should not dope.

One of the main reasons competitors dope is that they are under the pressure of their country. This affects a competitor even more if the country they are representing happens to be the host country. The competitors felt that they have a responsibility to ace their game and do their country proud. Moreover, they are also under immense pressure from their coach. Most will train for countless of hours to attain the first position in their game. However, some might resort to underhanded means to win it. These include doping of performance improving drugs to even “poisoning” other athletes.

Doping is also driven by the athletes motivation to win their game and do their country proud. It could also result from spite between 2 athletes, whom one athlete might choose to dope himself with drugs to beat the other athlete. In some cases, the coach might not even know about the doping issue, leading to problematic athlete-coach relations.

On the other hand, Doping could lead to serious consequences such as death. Doping is dangerous and unethical. It also serves no purpose in attaining glory for a country once the cat is let out of the bag.

Once Amphetamin was used in sports such as rugby to improve the players aggressiveness. However, after much research it was found to cause a lack of judgement that could lead to death if used too frequently. Often, the drugs used to improve the performance of athletes have a side effect that could lead to serious consequences. Once or twice in a few years would we chance upon a athlete having problems due to the taking of performance improving drugs. Our human body have a limit to the output( performance) it can release during a competition. Consumption of these drugs thus forcibly cause the athletes to perform beyond their limits, leading to problems such as a nervous breakdown after the game. Morever, it is also unethical to use them.

Doping can be likened to cheating in a game. Is cheating ethical? It does not respect other athletes who play the game fair and square. The Olympic games is created to honour the best athletes and to allow friendly competition between countries. Winning is not everything. Just as what Zig Ziglar said : Winning is not everything, But the effort to win is.

Indeed even though the athelete who dope himself might gain a minute or two of fame, is it worth harming the body and lying to the doping testers? Moreover, the doper will have to carry the secret to his graveyard, for it will bring national outrage should it get leaked out. Carrying this burden is no easy task to handle and that is why i should not dope.



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