Steroid Guide Review

Is it a big deal - steroid use in professional sports

Media has repeatedly drummed into our heads that using steroids will produce unlikely, negative effects. More than compromising health by using steroid, media has also feasted and exhausted coverage on athletes who are dishonorably and forcibly stripped of medals and honors in tournaments because of detection of steroids in their body fluids used in drug testing prior to the games. Since the first recorded humiliation of an Olympic athlete in early 1980’s and until now, we see and read athletes who are caught in conflict with tournament committees for failing their drug tests and for being positive in the use of steroids.

The question still remains however. Is it really a big deal? Does steroid use in professional sports predestine one to reap championship prizes? When we look at how the banning of these drugs in sports, we find that International Olympics Committee has done so not in the light of steroids’ effect on the human body, but rather on the moral and ethical issues associated with sportsmanship. Medical studies have unanimously agreed that steroids would predispose the human body to be bulkier and stronger, which are more fitting for athletes than other groups of individuals.

At the same time, we need to remember that Major League Baseball was one of the last tournaments to have sanctioned athletes who are caught using or detected to be using with drugs. In spite of this cutting-edge medical technology, the drug tests are far from perfectly accurate. Athletes intent on starting steroid use in professional sports would undoubtedly look   for and use drugs that are least detectable, or whose presence in the blood will be erased by time and metabolism. The professional athlete’s almost undeniable preference to these drugs is understandable on the account of enormous pressure on them by their coaches and team managers to harvest top plum prizes from prestigious tournaments.

So what’s the deal then? Steroid use in professional sports is actually acceptable. In spite of the fact there are reports of drug abuse among baseball players, the sport has not suffered its popularity and ratings. And this is because, at the ultimate scheme of things, training, practice and dedication to the sports will count most on the field.