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The Problem with Steroids. Do steroids change sports that much?. Steroids make athletes stronger, quicker, and most of the time better players. . Steroids Work. Barry Bonds was accused of using steroids, Barry Bonds was found guilty of using Steroids.
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Do steroids change sports that much? Steroids make athletes stronger, quicker, and most of the time better players.
Steroids Work • Barry Bonds was accused of using steroids, Barry Bonds was found guilty of using Steroids. • Steroids have a definite effect on Athletes.
The Mitchell Report • The Mitchell Report was a list of players who did steroids written by George Mitchell. The list was used to find hundreds of Major league baseball players guilty of using illegal substances.
Steroids In The Olympics • There have been many Olympic athletes who have been found guilty of doping and have had there medals taken away.
Effects on Body • Not only are steroids unfair and degrading of sports, they are awful for the human body.
Effects continued… • Steroids have many effects, including skin- redness, acne, bad breathe, Shrinkage, etc.
Unfairness of Steroids Natural • Steroids are used to gain advantages on other players. • The “Girl” on the left probably can’t play Tennis very well but I think we know who would win in an arm wrestling contest. Steroids are unfair and wrong. Unnatural
Use of steroids in high school • If steroids are banned in Professional sports, then High school athletes wouldn’t feel the pressure to dope up.
Players do not take steroids to level the playing field but to gain an advantage. Steroids work and that’s why they need to be banned.
Should we care about people who use steroids and don’t play a professional sport? • The answer is yes, we should care. • Though the users aren’t hurting others chances of keeping a job, or making history, they are hurting themselves. • It would be inhumane for the rest of us to allow doping to continue.
Remembering old records that mean something • Hank Aaron had the previous home run record that was recently broken by Barry Bonds. • The question that we should ask is: should Barry Bonds be put in the record books as the player with the most home runs?
Remembering old records that mean something continued… • The answer is No! • Barry Bonds willingly and knowingly played the game that Hank Aaron, Joe DiMaggio and other old time players couldn’t.
The Fan base of baseball has lessened over the past few years. Leads to