Drugs in Sport (Doping) Reviews

These past four years the British government has spent millions on sports equipment for schools and clubs in order to find the athletes of the future. They’ve spent even more money on training Olympic athletes and the athletes themselves have taken four years out of their lives, with only a couple of weeks off to see their families, to ...

I love sport, the passion, the excitement, the glory of being better than everybody else, but what price would you pay to be the best. I personally believe that the majority of athletes at the olympics are on some sort of drug, whetever it is legal or illegal, they will all be taking some form of supplement to aid them in their quest for ...

I have a proposal to solve the issue of drug enhanced olympians ruining the proceedings. I propose that there should be two Olympic games events which run simultaneously side by side. One in which ordinary athletes compete through their hard work and efforts and the other which drug enhanced Olympians are welcome to compete in. If people wish to ...

I am sorry but I am very anti-drugs. I believe that NO drugs should be taken by professional atheletes as the competitons should be based on ability and talent not on how many pills they have popped that day. Maybe I am naive as I know drugs are all around us in society but we should try to stand up for atheletes and sportsmen and women worldwide ...

Olympians thesedays are supercharged TNT guns of the navarone. You won't catch them with a lard butty and a pint of pale ale before chegging the javelin. It's all balanced diets, supplements and scientific scoffing to get the best out of ones body. Teams of nutritionists are in attendance to ensure that only the right things go ...

Drugs in sport is not a new issue, historically drugs have been used to enhance performance since competitive sport took off.The athletes that take drugs are taking huge health risks but a lot feel highly pressured to win and take this risk .The whole idea of the olympics seems misguided ,originally an attempt at uniting nations through sport to ...

The way I see the drugs issue is as follows... If the competitors want to endanger themselves then let them. Performance enhancing drugs should be made legal ONLY for international events. The chances one of the competitors may over dose/die only serves to make the games more exciting. It also gives those competitors who are ...

The IOC have been very publicly testing most, if not all of them. I suppose they public at large have called out for this. Who wants an athlete to be the best in the world if they are doing so with the aid of some high-tech drugs? We could have special drug olympics then. Whoever can afford the best drug wins. Simple. What's the ...

As far as I'm concerned the current olympics have been ruined by the almost constant news that so and so has been stripped of a medal after being tested positive for such and such. It could almost be given an official five minute bulletin slot, since each day can be relied upon to produce another batch of offenders. It's not that ...

I see that the Romanian double gold medalist and also one silver medal Gymnast Andreea Raducan has been striped of her individual gold medal, but allowed to keep the other two by the verdict of the Olympic Commitie. What sort of a verdict is that? She must be either gulity or not guilty, not haveing both. The substance she tested for is banned by ...

It's so hard to make any real sense of this issue, and virtually every major Olympic discipline seems to be riven with disagreement and controversy. It would be easier to understand this if there were a bunch of drugs you could buy that simply enable you to go faster, lift more, jump further, etc. and had no other purpose. But so ...

You've worked hard for many years, getting up early, giving up your social life to put in hours and hours of training. You are among the top percentage of sportspeople in your field. Then you are picked for the Olympics. Suddenly you have a crisis of confidence. What if you aren't as good as everyone else? What if everyone laughs at ...

weightlifting, a repeat offender, as again produced another drug scandal when two Bulgarian lifters were shamed and stripped of their medals for taking the banned diuretic furosemide. These should be banned for life and not allowed to compete what so ever. The payment which was accepted to allow the team back in is also a huge mistake ...

i think that there should be more punnishment for atheltes that test possitive for drugs. At the moment they get away with a years bad. i mean thats really not that bad. They should get banned for life if you want my opinion. If they are stupid enough to take them in the first place then they should have to take the consequences. So ...

People who take drugs to improve their sporting performance are cheats. Their is no argument about it, they are cheating. The rules state that certain substances are banned and the rules are quite clear on this. Why should someone be allowed to take drugs to make them faster/stronger/fitter etc? If nothing else, it sets a bad example to ...

Any athelete found taking drugs should be banned & all atheletes with the same trainer should be tested. Sport in general is taking all the steps possible to outlaw drugs taking but they have an almost impossible task. There are so many substances available to the cheat & not all have a definative test to find them. I sympathise with ...

A fair playing field is all most athletes would ask for. Given a list of illegal drugs by any sports' governing body an athlete still has plenty of ways they can boost their performances, through training methods, supplements and hard work. But something has gone wrong lately, especially with the number of athletes suddenly testing ...

I am a very keen viewer of the olympic events, and always seem to find that I am arguing with friends about one main issue which pops up every time without fail - DRUGS. I have a very mixed view on this, let me explain....... TESTING I find it rather ironic that officials are testing for substances which can, on occasions ...

I'm sure that most of us would agree that using drugs within sport is wrong. Someone taking drugs to gain an unfair advantage over a good, clean, honest and law-abiding athlete is just not on. For this reason I think it would be an excellent idea to have a separate Olympics for drug users. Athletes would be tested for drugs ...

I really don't think drugs in sport would be a problem if the controllers of the sports would actually have the spine and balls to confront the problem and do something. There have been many cases where people get of to lightly for breaking the rules. Only this week in the games a countries group of weightlifters was banned becasue 3 ...