Steroid: The Integrity Of Sports

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With steroid users gaining an enormously unfair and unreal advantage, any and all athletes will be forced to partake of these drugs in an attempt to simply compete, which will compromise the integrity of sports. Sports remain one of the last end products of hard work, determination and talent. They are the ultimate display of discipline and zealous effort. By using these drugs, however, the natural talents which athletes possess and work fervently to improve, are quickly discarded. The integrity of sports is the composition of equal opportunity and an athlete’s natural talents - speed, skill, endurance, and awareness - further developed by training and toil. But by using these drugs this integrity, this silver lining, is compromised because