I don’t follow Cycling, but everyone knows who Lance Armstrong is. He recently was busted for PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs), which are a major problem in all sports these days it seems. In MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), fighters are being busted all of the time for steroids, human growth hormone and other such performance enhancers. Athletic commissions in many states even allow the use of TRT (Testosterone Replacement Therapy) with a doctor’s note. Their levels of testosterone in some states are allowed to be 4 – 6 times that of a normal man’s. It’s really just sickening to any true sportsmen.
Sports are supposed to be about pushing the human body to the limits, not cheating your way to the top using harmful drugs. Destroying your body through deadly chemicals in order to get an edge over fellow competitors. Many of the people (I won’t call a cheater an athlete) in these sports have a completely wrong mindset. It’s sad when something as pure and noble as a sporting competition gets perverted and abused to this point. I hope someday every sporting event has athletes who want to train hard and be the best, by their own merits, not through drug abuse.
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