There are always going to be drugs in sport, but how do you go about making it a fair playing feild? Allow for all athletes to use them? Surely not, walk around after all athletes with a urine sample bottle 24/7? Its very tough to catch them as the people who make the drugs are not only making them better but harder to detect. A former Irish swimmer was on the radio yesterday and at the Barcalona Olympics 75% of athletes said that they would take drugs to enhance preformance and die at the age of 60, if it meant that they won a gold medal! They kept dropping the age and if it meant that you won a gold medal and were never cought, 25% of the athletes would be willing to die at the age of 40!
These people are at the top of there sports and havent got to the top of their sport by settling for second place, they take so many supplements as it is, I am sure that alot of them would be very tempted if they were offered a drug that cannot be detected. This is sad but true, is there anything that can be done to beat this cheating? It is interesting that the problem is mainly in individual sports such a swimming, running and cycling rather than team sports such as football and Rugby! Lets hope there will be very few doping bans and none after the medals have been won and lost!
