Anabolic Steroids In Sports

In sports the competitive thrive to be the best and beat the other team is the whole point of the competition. Just like in professional sports athletes will do anything to achieve this goal even if cheating is necessary in the process. In the 2001 baseball season, Barry Bonds hit an MLB single season record of seventy-three homeruns. This statistic occurred right at the same time as the steroid era, a period in which many hitters posted insane numbers in batting average and homerun quantity with the help of performance enhancing drugs. Barry Bonds became one of the most well-known steroid user in the history of baseball. During these time athletes saw that they would have to be stand out players if they wanted to get the big money and fame. …show more content…
“Russian weightlifters in the 1954 world weight lifting competition introduced anabolic steroids to international athletic competition. This practice was widely adopted, including by American coaches, and by the 1964 Olympics, the practice was widespread (Kiesbye, 21). This spread to many other teams, including women’s teams, such as the East German women’s swim team who in the late 1900’s was dominating due to injections. As years went on, anabolic steroids became more popular and spread to all different sports. One sport that commonly uses steroids, is football players. “The 1963 Chargers, known as football's first steroid team, romped to an 11-3 record and won the AFL championship with a dominant 51-10 victory over the Boston Patriots (Vice Sports). This was due to the San Diego Chargers being the first to hire a strength coach, that was giving the players steroid pills, without informing them that they were steroids. Alvin Roy, the strength coach, told the players he wanted to assimilate more protein and had the men lifting weights while taking these pills. This led to the player’s performance to improve, but the use of anabolic steroids is highly considered cheating. Over the years, even though the drug is known to be illegal to use for enhancement of athletic performance, players continue to use it. Another sport that anabolic steroids are commonly used for it baseball. Recently, in 2005, there was an estimate that 80 percent of major leagues had taken drugs for their entire career and took credit for the work. These players allowing themselves to take a drug that will enhance their work, is considered cheating an

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