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.

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.

Effects continued…

Unfairness of Steroids

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.

Natural

Unnatural

People and players accused of using steroids, you decide

Before and after

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.

Recent Players accused of doping

The Fan base of baseball has lessened over the past few years.

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Alex Faulkner Before After

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