Steroids In Sports

Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports

Over the last twenty years have you noticed how much bigger and faster athletes

have become. Many athletes are under pressure to perform and turn to performance enhancing drugs despite their negative effects on the body. Why are athletes using performance enhancing drugs? Is it fame, fortune, or is it they just donпÑ--Ð...t want to give up the game and at what price are they willing to pay to play there sport.

In professional sports today an athlete can make an enormance amount of money. The contracts that are offered to the top athletes today can be over one hundred million over the life of the contract. There are also endorsement deals; every company wants a high profile athlete to represent them. These companies will pay a lot of money for the right person. пÑ--Ð...When Michael Jordan signed his first contract with Nike in 1984, it was for $2.5 million over five yearsпÑ--Ð... (AP May, 2003). In May 2003 LeBron James signed a $90million contract with Nike.

For some athletes itпÑ--Ð...s all about wining. They may measure there career in championships. In almost every sport there are annual awards given out to the top athletes. There is also a Hall of Fame for the best of the best in there sport. For an athlete to receive one of these awards they need to be in top physical condition to excel and master there sport. In other cases some athletes just want to play forever. Bobby Hull played professional hockey in 5 different decades. Ricky Henderson played professional baseball for 28 years.

There are many types of performance enhancing drugs being used today. Anabolic Steroids were developed in 1939 to treat conditions such as eunchoid

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Syndromes, impotence, depression, starvation,