If there is one word to describe professional athletes who knowingly, but on the other hand, try to cover up there performance-enhancing usage “Fraud” is the perfect word for it. Fraud is everywhere nowadays: Fraud in business, Fraud in friendships, and I am here to tell you now that fraud is now even in the professional sporting world.
Which is hard for us to take in at first, because going to, or watching any sporting event on television, is our escape from this rotten/messed up world in which we live on, however, not everything in this world is all dark, and gloom, for some reason it just seems like it, and when our one escape from reality becomes none at all It just makes it that much harder, to escape from it all.
When professional athletes, such as the one who recently hit his 600th home run, a certain cyclist, in which everyone around the world, bought into the whole yellow wristband idea a couple of years ago, and when certain athletes such as the two that I describe above of high star magnitude, it brings us back to the reality of life in which sports should not. Granted most of you could careless about what they do with their bodies, and I would have to agree with you.
It’s there life, however, when an athlete sells himself as either a clean ball player, or a clean rider, and then make millions, on endorsements for that clean image, it’s just not right. And then when evidence starts to show the contrary it becomes fraud. Which is really the problem, look if an athlete wants to do performance-enhancing drugs, fine, so be it.
However, when an athlete does decide to go along that path, or when a test does show that they have indeed gone that path, they should atomically be ban from any milestone accomplishments, and they should be required to take 1/4th of their career earnings, and donate it to awareness for further research of those drugs, as well as to a prevention, and intervention programs. As well as have PEDU (Performance Enhancing Drug User), along with their name when it’s shown on television.
I bet that some athletes would accept that deal, and for the others they would stay even further away from using those drugs. It’s a hard stance, but in my opinion it’s the only solution nowadays for the professional sporting world. Because us fans do not want fraud, we want real competitive equal competition, but its too late, so this option is a way to short it out for us fans, from fake to real, so we know when a milestone deserves our special attention.
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