2006-10-18 07:26:22 · 6 answers · asked by paul j 1 in Sports ➔ Olympics
Steroids do not make you better at your sport or give you an edge to win. For instance Steroids are used to add testosterone to your system to help with muscle growth and healing so you can train twice as often and hard. In otherwords a person who doesn't use steroids can only train so many hours a day or days a week, on specific areas of their body because you need time to heal otherwise you will injur your self. Steroids help the healing process so the person on them can train twice as much as the one not on them.
So drugs don't gaurentee a win they just help with training harder and healing. And trust me most pro athletes are on drugs they just don't get caught at the time.
Imagine being a foot ball, hockey or rugby player and playing 4 days a week getting beat up and injured. The drugs take the pain away and heal them faster.
Oh and by the way. I have never taken them and would never take them.
Additional: As for people who say it's because they are not good enough to do the sport with out them. Well all these athletes played their respective sports from the time they were young and all had to be drafted. I don't know about you guys but I never saw any 14 year old using steroids. In fact I played Rugby football and I played AA baseball, and I never witnessed it.
I suggest people go and research their info before they answer cause it makes them look uninformed and inexperience.
2006-10-19 05:01:25 · answer #1 · answered by Judoka 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't follow sports that much but I guess I do. It is illegal and gives those who do it an edge over those who do not. The games are of skill and what you do with that skill. By taking drugs you enhance the skill but at what cost? It is not just your skill but enhanced and therefore, is dubious. I think it also sends a bad message for kids. You can get by better if you take a drug to enhance your skill. In doing so, the skill belongs not only to you but to you and the drug. Drugs should be banned and the people who used them disallowed to participate in professional sports ever again
2016-03-18 21:32:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They took a survey between 10 and 20 years ago and asked athletes would they take something that could help them win even if the substance would take 5 years off their life. Over 75% percent said they would.
2006-10-20 05:10:37 · answer #3 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to win, take the easy way out instaed of years of training they follow along because they think everyone else is doing it and they can't compete to the caliber out there, maybe they just aren't that good and need to realize it that not everyone is on drugs maybe they're just better.
2006-10-18 08:11:13 · answer #4 · answered by moglie 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To enhance their perfomance.
2006-10-18 09:08:26 · answer #5 · answered by Pen2Paper 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
to be better at their sport!!
2006-10-18 07:33:21 · answer #6 · answered by Baby #1 born August 2009 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋