Legalisation of doping
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:22 pmShould doping in sport be legalised?
I think that sport is an activity not indispensable for the life. There is any reason that justifies, in my opinion the utilization of drugs or blood in order to enhance the performance of the athletes. The administration of drugs has, many times, undesirable effects that can damage the health of the athletes, and the professional sport is a job and the amateur sport is a hobby. It is not necessary to expose athletes to unnecessary risks.
Will it ever be possible to stop athletes breaking the rules to win?
It is very difficult because the extremely competitivity of sports. There are very necessary the controls antidoping in competitions, but it exist the probability that appears new forms of doping.
In fact, in recent years, gene doping has been reported as being an emerging form of doping. Gene doping would be very difficult to detect as well as permanent and irreversible.
Are athletes who take drugs cheats or are they victims?
Both exist. There are athletes that don’t know that some medicines for mild pathologies contains forbidden drugs and they are misled by people around them (victims). And they are another ones that consciously taken drugs to achieve better results in competitions hoping not to be discovered (cheats).
I think that sport is an activity not indispensable for the life. There is any reason that justifies, in my opinion the utilization of drugs or blood in order to enhance the performance of the athletes. The administration of drugs has, many times, undesirable effects that can damage the health of the athletes, and the professional sport is a job and the amateur sport is a hobby. It is not necessary to expose athletes to unnecessary risks.
Will it ever be possible to stop athletes breaking the rules to win?
It is very difficult because the extremely competitivity of sports. There are very necessary the controls antidoping in competitions, but it exist the probability that appears new forms of doping.
In fact, in recent years, gene doping has been reported as being an emerging form of doping. Gene doping would be very difficult to detect as well as permanent and irreversible.
Are athletes who take drugs cheats or are they victims?
Both exist. There are athletes that don’t know that some medicines for mild pathologies contains forbidden drugs and they are misled by people around them (victims). And they are another ones that consciously taken drugs to achieve better results in competitions hoping not to be discovered (cheats).