The Dark Side of Sports: How Drugs Are Corrupting Athletic Integrity

There's a hidden athlete in all of us that is buried because of the other responsibilities we all have in life.

I used to spend entire day playing games and sports with friends back in the high school and before that in neighbourhood. From cricket to football and than badminton or various other games I've tried most of them.

I always liked the competition from the early days and losing from other team used to make me so upset and one thing i inherited by playing sports is that enjoying the competition and defeating that.

Remember the time when we used to play cricket and some kids used to say throw me a slow ball and I always wanted them to throw it as fast as they can because i like it when it isn't easy.

I Played multiple tournaments in the neighborhood and school. Mostly as a batsman and than later I became a bowler too so it was all rounder and performance was good that time .

Nowadays Athletes Use Drugs to Enhance Performance

Everything is becoming unreal in today's world and even in sports these athletes have started taking drugs to boost their performance in the game.

The games have been turned from competitive and medals to popularity and money. Some of athletes prefer to win by taking drugs and enhancing their performance in the game against the normal athletes who are playing fair.

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On professional level I believe they do proper drug test to make game fair amongst athletes but in local tournament people don't care about taking test and they do take drugs.

Performance Enhanced but it cost your health

There's no such thing that comes without paying a price and those who used drugs to perform ends up facing health problems which is normal

And even if those side effects become nearly zero, people should simply avoid it and not use.

We all have potential and can reach that potential without taking shortcuts and supplements but we all have seen how bodybuilders takes steroids to gain instead of growing naturally.

It do cost them a lot with serious health injuries and problems in life. I'm totally against all the supplements and drugs people take or do on the body to make it look bigger and have better performance like it or not but it's just another insecurity of people with a weak mind.

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everyone needs to find their own potential

And we can find that potential within ourselves but the right way without going for the drugs or supplements.

For athletes, their biggest treasure is own body. If it's functioning properly and that person is taking care of it by eating healthy, doing workouts properly and avoiding any unhealthy things like drugs

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Than I believe every single athlete can have that body which will be good enough to get maximum performance. Otherwise it's just not fair to your own self and with other players If you can just take drugs and perform better.

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Wrapping Up...

In the end the only two things that I believe matter are mind and body, if both of these are at it's full potential than there's nothing else needed to enhance performance.

So for the healthy mind, we need a healthy body and it's just take a lot of efforts and time to maintain that kind of athletic physique and this is exactly why I do appreciate all of them.

I hope you do agree with this and would love to know what's your thoughts on this matter in the comments.

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