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Alex Whalen Performance Enhancing Drugs Performance Enhancing drugs are hurtful and should never be legalized in any sports.

l. Performance Enhancing Drug ruins the lives of athletes and are links to bad things that could potentionly hurt them. Performance Enhancing Drugs are wrong and have many bad consequences assosciated along with them.

ll. When an athlete wins an event the competitiors and fans will all assume that they cheated or used Performance Enhancing Drugs.
 * "Sports fans have become skeptical"(Wiesing)
 * This means that when an athlete achieves a succesful result everybody will assume that he was doping.(Weising)
 * Nobody would trust athletes(Weising)
 * Explain counterargument about how you shouldn't blame the players because they are young and irresponsible.(Guardian.)

lll. Kids would no longer look up to these athletes. it would ruin the image of the athlete and they wouldn't be trusted by their fans. IV: The athletes that set records without using performance-enhancing drugs would be at a disadvantage because they didn't get to use the Performance Enhancing Drugs that would be legal now.(Weising) V. conclusion.
 * It would ruin their image and lose trust(Weising)
 * It would make kids say if they do it then I should and those drugs could hurt the children.(Weising)
 * If kids in high school take drugs they would have a number of negative consequences(research)(New York Times)
 * Effects on children if they take after their role models(Weising)
 * Tour de France winners that were busted for doping would and stripped of their title would be giving their title back.(Stinchcomb)
 * If they were to be legalized then there would be many health risks associated along with them.Weising)
 * The athletes that don't use performance enhancing drugs will be pressured to do so because they are not winning anymore.(Weising)

Rough Draft

Over the last few years a reacurring issue in Proffesional sports is doping. Performance Enhancing drugs have proved to be making a bad name for many sports. A sports fan worst nightmare is waking up and reading the headline that says your favorite athletes used performance enhancing drugs. Most of the best athletes have faced allegations against them for doping. Alex Rodriguez, Lance Armstrong, Barry Bonds, are some of the most known faces in their professions. All of these players have been accused of using illegal substances. Since so many athletes seem to already take these drugs, many people have suugested making Performance Enhancing Drugs legal under medical supervision. Doping ruins the lives of athletes and link to bad things that could potentionly harm the user. These substances are hurtful and should never be legalized even if they were to be under medical surveilance.

The first issue with making drugs legal would be the suspicion. If an athlete wins an event or achieves greatness, the automatic question or belief would be that they used Performance Enhancing Drugs to achieve this success. In a recent article, it explains how "Sports fans have become skeptical"(Weising), or aprehensive. Fans will always seem to doubt the athletes no matter how much they try to convince them that they didn't cheat. So when an athlete works their body until it feels they can't go any faster, how bad would it feel to know that there are people out there suspect of you cheating? The athletes trust would soon "dissapear"(Weising). People and judges would always doubt the athlete that won. The athletes character would quickly diminish. It may seem as though the athlete is "young" and "under tremendous amounts of peer pressure"(Guardian). The athletes is old enough to understand what is wrong and what is right. These people have been taught since grade school to not associate yourself with drugs.If Performance Enhancing Drugs were legalized, fans and competitors would for surely question the performance.

Kids would greatly be hurt if they find that there favorite athlete was doping. Athletes are role models to young children. Kids look up to them as if they are their father. They dress as them for Halloween, they collect their cards, they copy their every move. But what happens when the athlete choses to take Performance Enhancing Drugs? Do they still copy this move? Possibly. Once again, some kids will feel as if they had betrayed them. The athlete would lose trust in some of their biggest fans.(Weising). Another reason that could potentionly harm children would be that if a kid see's his favorite player using Performance Enhancing Drugs and winning, this basically sends the message to the child saying that "if you want to win then you have to take drugs". An article says that these players "must be willing to do anything for success."(Weising). Now, what is this telling our children? If our children decide to take after these athletes, they could be possibly injured. If the player taking the drug has medical supervision, chancces are the child doesn't, potentionly harming the child. A recent study in the New York times says that high schoolers that take Performance Enhancing Drugs, could "include increased hostility and aggression, tendon weakness, severe acne, and even a higher risk of cancer. In addition, some teens who have suddenly stopped using steroids have experienced dangerous depression."(New York Times). These are serious consequences for kids who decide to take after their role models. Kids idolize these athletes and one healine could either upset them or make them want to mirror their role model, which could lead to many harmful consequances.

The legalization of Performance Enhancing Drugs would also go against the past. Athletes that didn't get to use Performance enhancing Drugs would be at a dissadvantage. Old records would be smashed, and history would be forgotton. If drugs were legalized, athletes would be bigger, stronger,and faster. The athletes that would now get to use drugs to boost their performance would hammer records that were set by none-users. This would be unfair, becaue these men and woman worked hard to be the best and now they are getting blown out by cheaters."The generations of athletes who were not entitled to use performance - enhancing drugs would be at a disadvantage."9Weising). Another issue regarding past athletes, would be the ones that got in trouble for doping. An example would be the Tour de France. 13 winners of this event have tested positive for performance Enhancing Drugs.(Stincchomb). This would mean all the cyclists that were stripped of their titles would now be givin their titles back. This would cause confusion and controversy, becasuse these men were banned from ever racing the Tour de France. If they were legalized then there would be plenty of health risk that come along for the ride also.(Weising). If Performance Enhancing Drugs were to be legalized its would add a whole other risk added onto the many they had before. Football players are already risking their body, why would they want to risk their health.(Weising). Also, If they were to be legalized then the athletes that arn't winning anymore because they choose to not take drugs, would be pressured to do so. These men and woman are making a living off being succesful in Proffesional sports and if they arn't winning then they arn't making a living. Some say 'athletes who wished to be successful would have no choice but to use the substances"(Weising). The legalization of Perrformance Enhancing Drugs would make the athletes to performed in the past be at a disadvantage.

Ultimatly, Performance Enhancing Drugs are harmful and even under medical control should never be legalized. These illegal substances should never be declared legal for severel key reasons. One being that people would suspect the athlete of doping and therefore lose the trust of the athlete. A second reason is the effect on children. They could choose to be like their role model and take the drugs which have proven to be harmful. Lastly, Performance Enhancing Drugs could cause anger and confusion whithin the past athletic generations. Many athletes careers and lives have been ruined by using Performance Enhancing Drugs, why should they be legalized?