Steroids and professional sports
Steroids and professional sports
It is sad to say that many athletes are using steroids. From Mariah Jones, female sprinter, to the boxer Shane Mosley and UFC fight Sean Sherk. This is just the recent ones that are still on my mind. But more and more of them are admitting or getting caught and I not surprised by it.
I am writing this is because the reputation of Tour de France has had over steroids. 7-time Tour de France champion, Lance Armstrong, was rumoured that he was taking steroids in 1999 but turned out to be false, but when he retired all the top people who where favourites on Lance Armstrong’s yellow jersey (it wore by the winner of Tour de France), Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso, where banned from there time one day prior to race. The winner of Tour de France, American Floyd Landis was also found guilty of taking steroids. And not only those mentioned champions where taking it also the contenders where taking it. This put the cycling scene a bad reputation of steroid that could haunt them for quit awhile.
Do professional athletes really know what they are using and what they are taking?
Well I guess there is so much money involve in professional sport as well as the rivalry is ferocious as ever. Tour de France cyclist is not the only people who people should be looking at but also many other sport there isn’t the regular doping check up. One case was involving Italian’s football giants Juventus with anabolic steroid, which the closed the case in court and Mariah Jones, most successful female sprinter, is also involve. For the days to come there will be more professional athletes will be caught, I wont be surprised any name given because I know there is so much to money to won that is to tempting not to have advantage over others or maybe they want to be same as others because many are using steroids too?
October 22, 2007 at 6:07 am
Yea…steroids is a sad story.