Nowadays, the world is being bombarded by the issue of Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) utilisation especially at high level sports such as the Olympics level. Doping activities in sports have been a continuous plight towards athlete. Court actions are issued, title stripped off and worst is athletes’ involvements in sports are prevented forever. Dozens of athletes were tested positive for PEDs. Regardless the strict punishments that have been imposed, what drives athletes for doping? The promising glory might be the best answer for this. Performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) is a form of synthetic chemical …show more content…
Some athletes are just too lucky to be born with a genetic asset which might give a huge advantage in the sports that they master in. For instance, the African American has been seen to monopolise in running due to their well-developed muscle and bone structure. Some might have biologically admirable body metabolism which allow them to be fit and have higher endurance. Sports indirectly set up a race between these genetically gap and this discriminate against those unfit athletes. Therefore, by legalising the PEDs, the genetic inequality can be reduced so those who are unfit can get equal ability and be more competitive and as a result, a more challengeable race among athletes. Therefore, legalising PEDs not only reducing genetic discrimination, but it also helps in reducing economic discrimination among countries. With the advanced technology and equipment nowadays, the more money the countries have, the closer they are to the championships. Rich countries can afford to buy high-technology training equipments such as the hypoxic air machine. Both hypoxic air machine and EPO are a type of enhancer that sparingly has the same effects with those who are improving their blood cell productions. The difference is just the first one is legal while another one is illegal. Obviously, if the price of EPO is much cheaper compared with the high technology equipments, people will be attracted to the …show more content…
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