Just say yes to steroids
By: Kate Schmidt
The video is worthless though.
Interesting, especially coming from someone as big as her. While I agree with her point that drugs in professional sports are now the rule rather than the exception, I think her reasoning about embracing drugs is a bad idea and the idea that kids should jump on this is in poor taste.
I still think that sports needs to hold onto the idea of physical talent against physical talent rather than chemical enhancement vs chemical enhancement. What makes elite athletes so special to watch is that there is a uniqueness to there talent. Not everybody can hit a ball that far, run that fast, or throw a javelin that distance. When we see a human do something extraordinary, we feel like we’re watching somebody who is gifted. If we pull back the curtain on drugs, then what do we have left to believe in. we wonder how great that talent would be without the drugs. I know that’s not a popular opinion on this web site, but I just think it cheapens it. I have a lot of respect for barry bonds and I’m impressed by his home run record, but knowing that he took steroids only makes me more in awe that hank aaron presumably achieved the same thing without the drugs.
Okay, but what do you do when even after people get caught they get to reap the benefits of using the roids.
I am sorry but skill is skill. No roids in the world are going to make me better at a sport. Skill of any form comes from years of hard work and training. Just cause someone enhances there muscles with some external factor, either coffee or deca doesn’t make them less of an athlete. If you read about the history of external enhancement in sports it has been going on for 100’s of years.
To deny that every single athlete is not doing something to enhance bodies is a lie. Since its been going on for so long makes you wonder how many world records are “enhanced” world records. So why stop it now just because science gives us a better understanding of the human body.
my 0.02
DB
In any other field steroids would be an “earth shattering medical/technological breakthrough!”.
In sports it is cheating.
That just doesn’t make sense to me. I can’t rectify the massive disparrity in thinking.
[quote]dirtbag wrote:
I am sorry but skill is skill. No roids in the world are going to make me better at a sport. Skill of any form comes from years of hard work and training. Just cause someone enhances there muscles with some external factor, either coffee or deca doesn’t make them less of an athlete. If you read about the history of external enhancement in sports it has been going on for 100’s of years.
To deny that every single athlete is not doing something to enhance bodies is a lie. Since its been going on for so long makes you wonder how many world records are “enhanced” world records. So why stop it now just because science gives us a better understanding of the human body.
my 0.02
DB[/quote]
The Greeks in the ancient Olympics would use various substances that purportedly enhanced performance. Of course it was nothing compared to AAS, it certainly makes a point. In fact, if a Greek athlete did not do EVERYTHING possible to enhance performance, natural or not, he was not considered worthy of victory.
performance enhancers do just that. they enhance performance. they make a bad athlete just below avg, a decent athlete above avg, a good athlete a great athlete, and a gifted athlete a superstar.
when you are talking about the difference of a 10th of a second between first and last in the 100m it makes a big difference but it is one of only a number of factors…conditioning, mental training, nutrition, preperation, etc. It is one of the many things most athletes need to do just to keep up. If anyone thinks that pro sports is not filled with people trying any way they can to get an edge you are fooling yourself. I guarantee you if they came up with a test that could catch guys for taking HGH just about every NFL player would fail.
[quote]FuriousGeorge wrote:
I guarantee you if they came up with a test that could catch guys for taking HGH just about every NFL player would fail.[/quote]
Then why does it seem like there are so damn many lingering injuries in the NFL this year? I think drugs are very valuable for helping athletes recover from injuries. That doesn’t improve performance, it just keeps them on the field.
[quote]Pretzel Logic wrote:
FuriousGeorge wrote:
I guarantee you if they came up with a test that could catch guys for taking HGH just about every NFL player would fail.
Then why does it seem like there are so damn many lingering injuries in the NFL this year? I think drugs are very valuable for helping athletes recover from injuries. That doesn’t improve performance, it just keeps them on the field.
[/quote]
Steriods are amazing but they dont’ work overnight. If you pull your hamstring this sunday go play next sunday full speed with a bunch of guys landing on your leg it’s not going to get better all that fast.
What was amazing was T.O the year they went to the superbowl. What do you guys think was his key to recovering from a broken ankle? I can’t even recover from a paper cut that fast.
Painkillers, painkillers, and cortisone injections, and LOTS of tape! Remember he almost OD’d (supposedly) a year or 2 ago…