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WINNING AT ALL COSTS
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Participating in different kinds of sports is not new. People used to compete in sport for many centuries. They want to improve their stamina, to feel full of energy and confidence. Some people want to have steady hands and cool nerves, to have big muscles and great force. Others go in for sports in order to look good in competitions. But, if competing, people always want to be the best.
So sportsmen train a lot. They repeat different exercises again and again. Footballers and basketballers spend a lot of time running. Most sportsmen try to build up their muscles. Besides such people eat special food, vegetables, which have many vitamins. A man also must have natural qualities to be good in any sport. One must have no problems in his family life and he has to have a good rest in order to be the best.
Some people go even further. They start to use drugs, which are illegal in sports, and such people are often banned from international athletics. In order to build up muscles some body-builders use anabolic steroids. Stimulants are taken by basketballers and footballers to feel full of energy and confidence, to become aggressive and competitive. Beta-blockers help to cool nerves and relieve stress.
But such substances are very dangerous. Steroids can cause liver cancer in men and infertility in women. Stimulants do not create energy - they take it from the body. Eventually, users feel exhausted and washed-out. There is a danger of having a heart attack and one, pushing his body too far, can even die.
Drugs are officially banned in sport. Sportsmen, using drugs, are punished. They may be stripped of their medals if a drugs test on their urine is positive. Besides they are allowed no more to participate in competitions for a large period of time.
I hope sportsmen will stop taking drugs. In that case their chances for winning will be equal and, besides, they will have less problems with their health and with their judges. But some people argue that taking drugs will never be stopped in sports as athletes, who want to get medals will do everything for it and some of them even don't know what they drink. Their coaches decide this for them.
Some specialists even suggest that the list of drugs banned should be much shorter. In that case some sports will become the challenge of firms producing drugs rather than of sportsmen. There is one hope left that at the beginning of the new century medical men will invent less poisonous drugs for muscle build-up and stress relief. |
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