Drugs in sport.... Will it ever be clean?

Question

Never, not in my time. Every sport, has someone cheating. It only takes one sports person to stuff things up. It gives sport a very bad name.

Answer 1

No.There will always be drugs somewhere.The problem is just getting worse.Drugs are a major problem in this world and it needs to stop..

Answer 2

Short answer is no.  Have a look at the general population for drugs of 'leisure'.  Usage rates are on the increase despite the so-called 'zero-tolerance' c**p.  I don't see sports people (particularly footballers) as less likely to use them - quite the opposite.

As for performance drugs.  There are always wannabe's out there.  People who can't handle mediocrity or people who are close but not good enough (like Marion Jones ... what a guy hey?).

Personally I've just used age and fading memories to become a legend :-)

Answer 3

The authorities are always going to be one step behind the drug cheats. Here to stay, I think.

Answer 4

Nope never.

But i dont think it matters. After what has happened to Ben Cousins being sacked and charged and critised, no druggie would b stupid enough to freely come out and say they were a druggie

Answer 5

Sadly, with so much competition and money flung at athletes, the pressure is really on them to preform beyond their natural abilities.  Sport will never be free of drugs (i'm talking performance enhancing, not recreational illicit drugs).

More education, more awareness and harsher penalties are needed...especially in AFL.

Answer 6

I don't think in my lifetime neither Kev!

Answer 7

Hi Kev & no it will never happen its just worse now  & how   can they enjoy a win knowing themselves they cheated!!

that does not make sense to me

i would only want to win if i did it all myself!! :)

Answer 8

people train so hard that they feel that they "have to win" at all cost.  Not always is it the athlete but it could be demanded by their trainer.  And it means both of their incomes.  When anything deals with money and winning people are willing to give anything for success/fame and wealth.  Corruption abounds in countries and that doesn't appear to be stopping anytime soon.  It's just the nature of people to be as corrupt as you let them.  It would mean policing it.  Policing it would mean communism.  Communism would still mean the top people get wealthy.  So, I don't believe sports will get clean, ever.  When people see everyone doing it and for so long, eventually they join in to keep up.  That's how our athletes are getting caught up in this.  The feats that the public demand of them are superhuman feats.  Why does the public push them?  Why can't the public just enjoy games, or join in in games rather than create this competition and corruption for the athletes?  We are the public....why does the public demand this?  Why does the public demand spectator sports?  Maybe we should look to history, why they wanted spectator sports.  Was it because they wanted to be the wealthy, the wealthy watched the little guy struggle and do feats for them?  I could go on and on, but I won't.

Answer 9

Give any young person heaps of money, heaps of praise, heaps of spare time and a large percentage of them will get up to no good. Whether it is football or music or whatever it will always be the same unless they have some seriously good influence around them.

Answer 10

Never.

Answer 11

the only way now to make it clean seems almost impossible. The fact is as u said Every sport, has someone cheating, lets hope it gets resolved.

2 ways out of this and one would only cause more speculation on ALL players not just one club.

1. ( more speculation be warned) The AFL Players Association say Drop the Drug policy ....... which would mean every AFL Player would be assumed to be using performance enhancing substances

2. Make it mandatory after every match, and random at training .......... which of course would be questioning every player about drug use

either way there will be people that wont be happy.

Answer 12

I don't think so,there are always new drugs emerging.

I say,let them take it if they want to be stupid and cheat.

They are only kidding themselves.

They will be caught out eventually and the guilt they have inside them (once they have matured) will kill them ,just like Marion Jones.

It just goes to show we are all humans ,sports stars or not.

Which brings me to say,that I'm d**n proud of my life...MONEY or NOT!!!!

Answer 13

Ben Cousins and others like him give bad names to sport

Answer 14

Never has been for the last hundred few years and quite frankly, somebody always cheats weather its a game of Monopoly or 100m Olympic Final for sprinting.

Of course, you dont take drugs in Monopoly...but to cheat in sport...you know what I mean!

Answer 15

as if never

Answer 16

People don't just take drugs for performance enhancing.  They are used recreationally too.

And then there are idiots like Warney, who 'didn't know' what was in the cold and flu tablet his Mum gave him.........

Answer 17

I'm 16 years younger than you hun and i don't think the situation of drugs is going to improve. It's likely to get worse.

Answer 18

No cause like u said every sport has a drug cheat.

Answer 19

Sports will never be clean. Athletes will always be searching for a competitive edge to be the best player out there. Also, with the amounts of money that are involved in sports today, if they take some kind of drug, making millions of dollars, they set themselves and family up forever. Even once a sport has testing, there will be some other drug invented that there is no testing for.

Answer 20

Personally, I think that whichever sport is utilised, there will always be competitors who exploit the system. it's a mixture of dishonesty and ego.

If it's not self harm, with substance abuse, there can be loads of other ways of cheating an opponent.

Some competitors have been known to sabotage another persons efforts, or ruin a rivals reputation.

Remember the female figure skater who had another person do her dirty work by having her rival "Kneecapped"

Cheating takes on many forms, and drugs is only one of them.

I guess it's ok for a club president to commit a horrendous price fixing crime and not need to serve a sentence, only cough up a measly few million bucks. Would he be shown the door because of the crime,? Hardly, because he has the means of keeping a club solvent.

Answer 21

since sport turned professional it's been tainted. Especially the dirty american atheletes who have tainted the olympics. ban that filthy country.

Answer 22

Never, Sports players will always take drugs. It's a bad influence to kids who want to be like them eg: Ben Cousins.