Steroids In Sports
...to have fun or mainly to emulate their favorite sports figures. So many kids want to swing a bat like Barry Bonds, or rush the football like Jamal Lewis, or play soccer like Pelle'. When I was younger, I wanted to tackle like Lawrence Taylor. Since these children like to do what they see their role models do, what happens if they find out that their favorite person boosts his skills by using illegal substances? Since there are a lot of impressionable minds out there, some of those little fans may be swayed to do the same when they get the chance to. Steroids are addictive, just like marijuana or other illegal substances, and there are some well known athletes abusing them to get a quick "power up" instead of actually working hard to achieve muscle tone, or that extra intensity; that extra strength that they think they need. Steroids are seemingly displacing hard work in today's sports world.
I asked coach Wilson, my hometown football coach, about his opinion on steroids. "I've
caught some boys taking steroids personally, and I think the main reason that it's taken is
competition. They usually do not know how to lose, and they will do almost anything to
win." When I asked him what could be done to improve on this problem, " Well
the only thing that I can think of to sort of contain this problem is random testing for athletes."
"There is now a cream out that players do not have to inject into their blood stream, they just
have to rub it on their skin, and it won't show up in a blood test." He went on to state that "In Highschool it's pretty easy to point out most of the kids using." "You can mainly tell by their attitude, and their size for a highschool student." Also, he stated that "steroids don't really make you better, I mean they don't really increase your speed or agility, they just increase your intensity level, and make you bigger...
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