Should We Legalize Performance-Enhancing Drugs In Tennis-Sports?

In the past 25 years, the challenges presented performance-enhancing drugs in sport and work around the shortcomings of the drug testing agencies to ensure, at a point that even high rank officials are venting their frustrations come.

"It is definitely a performance-enhancing effect when you use things that improve oxygen transport to tissue," says Larry Bowers, an expert on athletic drug testing and senior managing director of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. He says anonymousSurveys of athletes indicate that only one tenth of them use performance-enhancing drugs. But he acknowledges that doped athletes can win most of the time. "

Charles Yesalis, a professor of epidemiology at Pennsylvania State University, believes the written extensively on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport in the last 23 years that a "majority" of the record champions probably doped his way to the finish line. "Many experts, at least in private, to feel that way, "he says."
"Yesalis said that drug testing is practiced, as in past games has been a" farce. "" Only because of my own value system, I've never seriously entertained by legalizing drugs, "Yesalis says." But the stench of hypocrisy is to throw off outweigh my concerns about my hands and say, "Let's all do what they want." Outrun Doping at the Olympic Games - Matthew Herper, 02.15.02, 12:00 ET clock Forbes.com

As Charles Yesalis, the United States. Anti-Doping Agency, I feelas saying: "Let's all do what they want.", but maybe it would send the wrong signal, so let's analyze what might happen if performance-enhancing drugs were legalized for professional athletes:

- Young people would be the wrong signal.

- Our general anti-drug laws would make no sense, since, athletes are users and abusers of illicit drugs, such as;
Amphetamines, diuretics, growth hormones, anabolic steroids, cocaine, coca leaf juice, cannabis MonkeyBrains and Görk (God Only Knows Really)!

- All drugs should be legalized!

- We would ask consumes one quarter of the world under speed, quarter to smoke cannabis have another quarter of snorting cocaine and the rest to take what to look "normal"! Kidding aside, it would be a disaster! Or would it be?

- The existing dysfunctional sports enthusiasts and wanabe Champion and without all the talent would start taking drugs
in the hope that it would work for them! (AlsoIf it would not work because it still needs a pure bread / great athlete
to win.)

- Greedy parents their children would begin pumping with all sorts of terrible things. (How naive I am, as if they were not
it is doing now?)

- High School Coaches of all sports would be a highlight!
"A 2005 survey of students across the country by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 4.8 percent had used steroids without a doctor'sPrescription.

Not that anyone needs a doctor. A study of 2005 were characterized by monitoring the future, showed a federally funded research enterprise that nearly 40 percent of high school graduates, said steroids "fairly easy" or "very easy to acquire" too. "The effects of steroids on high school sports CW Nevius was Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - San Francisco Chronicle

So, if, and tested at the Sydney Games, from almost 3000 athletes are registered about 80 percent of them, at least one"complementary legal" drugs or. More than 500 to more than five below authorized. It is clear that the "medicalization" of human performance, is at least at the Olympic Games, that means the sport is not, ironically, it without drugs, whether they are "legally" or not. "Doping in sport - a bitter pill to swallow Fri, December 8, 06 16:15

''No one wants to sit down the shot 65 feet or throw the discus 200 meters, and the only way I can use a large litter on steroids.''He said the competitionwould still be legitimate because he said, 80 to 90 percent of the athletes, he would have his face with steroids. VIEWS of the sport; Liberate Track and Field From Steroids VIEWS of sport; By Edwin Moses

Nicolas Escude former ATP player (Career High ATP Ranking - Singles: 17 (26-Jun-2000) in French Open 2002. In Paris, French, "said Davis Cup player Escude said:" At that tennis today is clean you have to live in a dream world. "by Piers Newbery - BBC Sport Online at WimbledonFriday 28 June 2002, 17:05 GMT 18:05 UK

Now the case for making it legal to take for professional athletes to drugs:

- If the estimate that about 80% of the athletes some kind of performance-enhancing substance use, there are good reasons for legalization!

- Performance enhancing drugs should be legal and only for professional athletes from the age of 18 years.

- Should be laws to protect non-professional athletes and young people - no tolerance on the use orAbuse.

- No tolerance for the use of performance-enhancing drugs for non-professional until the age of 18 years old!

- Doctors and medical centers should be responsible for sports, athletes drugs.

- The athletes and doctors and laboratories should take full responsibility for their own decisions.

- Trainers should remain completely out of the equation, should be professionals in the field, doctors, scientists and labs, the only ones with the decisionsAthletes.

There are a lot more questions, but shorter by this article, we have to understand that the public is well aware what is going on and to do so, officials, sponsors and governments. It is too much money at stake, billions and billions of dollars, we are no longer in the "Pierre de Coubertin" era. It is time for a change, and everyone feels better with the situation, the IOC, the governing bodies, inspection of sites, and sportsman himself.

So why are weContinuation of this farce? Hold on to say that our sport is clean, if in a particular Olympic Games more than 8O% of the athletes are "sick" or asthma and a liver, heart or lung disease, at prescribed to "legally" (illegal) drugs and competition! And as almost every week there is a report on drug use by professional athletes!

Remember in my last article - "SYDNEY, Australia has (AP) - John McEnroe reportedly were unknowingly took steroids during his tennisCareer.

"For six years I did not know I got a form of steroid of the legal kind they used to give horses until they decided it was too strong even for horses," McEnroe was with these words in The Daily Telegraph, quoted in Sydney on Monday. http://www.cnn.com/2004/SPORT/01/11/mcenroe.steroids.ap/ - CNN WORLD SPORTS Sunday, January 11, 2004 Posted: 8:52 PM EST (0152 GMT)

... and the ATP, ITF and whoever else is testing the player does not recognize "HORSE dosesSteroids, "John McEnroe in the urine or blood tests? In any case," you can not be serious! "

"In his Buch''You Can not Be Serious'', McEnroe said he suspected that steroids and amphetamines had made their way into the upper levels of the sport in the 80s." Why steroids and amphetamines were not recognized on other players too, that is, if players were investigated at all?

The excuse, "the authorities were tennis for testing drugs only" is oh! ... And cocaine appear in yourBody for the rest of your life in the roots of the hair. As it is, cocaine was detected in any of the possible suspected perpetrators in the tennis tour then? Or is it a case of the world as "stupid" and those organizations know better?

We could go on and on citing more and more questionable actions by the official side is not successful. Is the crux of all this, "Should we legalize performance-enhancing drugs in tennis sport?" As much as I hate to say this is absurd, whichhypocritical farce to an end, my answer is a redundant, yes!