Cases Of Doping, Especially Among Professional Athletes

Although this is illegal and if you get caught you are locked up for a long time, many athletes still try it. The question now is whether doping should be legalized because there are so many cases. The first argument for legalizing doping is that everyone has a better chance of winning. If doping is legalized, it doesn’t mean that everyone is doped, so you can be better than those, who do not dope. In addition, doping is known to make you better, so you have a higher chance of winning than before.

The next reason to lift the ban on doping is the fact that you don't have to do as much as without doping because the medication does this for you. If you have to perform less, it also means that you no longer have to train as much. Most professional athletes have to train so much that they hardly have time for family and friends. Doping would give them more free time because they don’t have to train as much anymore.

The last argument is, in my opinion, the strongest argument. The legalization of doping boosts the pharmaceutical industry. The fact that everyone is now allowed to dope means that more has to be produced. And if more has to be produced, the pharmaceutical industry has more to do, can hire more people, can sell more and thus earn more. So for the pharmaceutical industry, it would be a good profit if doping were legalized.

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But of course, there are also arguments against the legalization of doping. The first one is the fact that doping is unhealthy and harms the body. Taking high-potency medication can result in numerous injuries and even death. In addition, it is, as already mentioned, unhealthy and dangerous because the body is given medications that it doesn’t need. Furthermore, legalizing doping would be unfair because it is very expensive. Since it is so expensive, not everyone can afford it. As a result, those who earn enough and have the money would benefit.

But since not everyone makes the same amount of money, not everyone can automatically afford it and it would be unfair to legalize doping because those who have money can dope and get better and better and thus of course also earn more money. But those who don't have that much money can't dope, get worse and worse (since everyone else dope) and earn less money than they already do. So it would be an eternal cycle. The last argument against the legalization of doping is that in my opinion, only your own performance is the true performance. This means that if you win or celebrate success, you should do it through your own efforts and not through medication by doping. Success should be earned through hard training yourself. If doping is now legalized, successes are no longer 100 Percent developed itself.

Through the arguments and a lot of thinking, I came to the conclusion that the doping ban should not be lifted. Just the fact that doping is unhealthy and can even kill you convinced me. I was a competitive swimmer for a long time. It was tough, hard workout every day. Still, I could never have damaged my body the way doping does. I also think that it would be fake to celebrate a first place that I only gained through medication and not through my own efforts. Just the idea that any athlete wants to keep getting better, doesn't know where his limits are and therefore doped himself to death. It would be horrible. In addition, practically everyone could become a professional athlete if he doped himself long and good enough.

Then where would be the uniqueness or the Wow- moments? I think it would be very boring in the long run if every athlete only called up top performance and nobody had a bad day anymore. Besides, there is not only doping on people. There is a lot of doping, especially in equestrian sports. Not the people, but the horses are doped here. I personally find doping in horses or other animals even worse than in humans. People can decide for themselves whether they want to dope. They can normally say ‘no’ if they don’t want it. But animals can’t defend themselves against it. They are not asked and no one cares about their health. In my opinion, this is cruelty to animals. In summary, despite many advantages, I am against lifting the ban on doping

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