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Performance-Enhancing Drugs Are Aloud In Sports (Less gifted people can…
Performance-Enhancing Drugs Are Aloud In Sports
Less gifted people can perform at higher levels
Potentially increase the percentage of mid-quality professional athletes
Perhaps encourages a greater number of people to pursue professional sports
Gifted people, who also take PEDs, will still come out on top. Genetics will still "predetermine" the highest level of athletic performance
Athletes must do drugs or face unfair advantages
Athletes must choose between personal health and pursuing their love of sport
Cost of drugs goes up or perhaps PED business grows
Harmful affects of taking PEDs affects the health of those who choose to compete that way - or feel pressured to compete that way
Cost to enforce anti-PED rules decreases
Loss of jobs due to less enforcement need
Less money is spent in testing because (presumably) athletes would compete in drug-using competition instead of cheating
Possible separation of drug using and non drug using athletes
To keep competition fair athletes and records would be separated into drug using and non-drug using athletes
New records would need to be kept and different divisions of sports broadcasting, teams, leagues would need to develop
Potential decease in viewership or attention paid to non-PED athletes
Legalization of PEDs in the general population
Decreases in cost to regulate drugs as a whole
Increase in health care costs due to harmful effects of PEDs
Sources
https://www.usada.org/substances/effects-of-performance-enhancing-drugs/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4140700/
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/38/6/666.full