Should performance enhancing drugs be allowed in sports?
- Thread starter GarnettFan4Life
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my view on this is simple. Performance enhancing drugs kinda kills the more skilled and harder working player. I dont think the AFL needs to have a more level playing field, it needs more player working hard and striving to continue to get better.
On the topic on injections my view is that if u cant play the game without an injection u shouldnt be playing full stop. I've hated this ever since Brisbane pumped the Pies in the GF 10 odd years ago. I never really thought about it before then but if u are injured and cant play without an injection get off the field full stop!
On the topic on injections my view is that if u cant play the game without an injection u shouldnt be playing full stop. I've hated this ever since Brisbane pumped the Pies in the GF 10 odd years ago. I never really thought about it before then but if u are injured and cant play without an injection get off the field full stop!
I say No..... Because I wouldn't want to end up looking like this
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tim-Sharky-Ward/139704382848474
Seriously though, where do you draw the line. The rich would be able to pump themselves full of PED's, whilst the battler is at a distict disadvantage due to finances involved with taking these drugs.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tim-Sharky-Ward/139704382848474
Seriously though, where do you draw the line. The rich would be able to pump themselves full of PED's, whilst the battler is at a distict disadvantage due to finances involved with taking these drugs.
GarnettFan4Life
OZCT Supporter
i'm creating discussion and in my original post I said if no, why not. Curious as to other people's reasons why. Straight out NO really doesn't contribute anything
Hypothetically let's say I'm open to the idea of it. No one here yet has changed my mind.
GarnettFan4Life
OZCT Supporter
yeah that was one of my points for debate - if you couldn't play the next game because you're injured but then you get a cortisone injection to get you through, isn't that in itself "performance enhancing"? Cause otherwise you wouldn't be able to perform at all lol
GarnettFan4Life
OZCT Supporter
disregarding the money/contract issue, what about pushing the human body to and beyond limits, setting new records, seeing what people can do? Save it for individual settings and not team sports that people pay to see etc?
GarnettFan4Life
OZCT Supporter
Although I agree with this and you have a vaild point what you need to remember is that the injection would not make that player perform at a level higher than what they normally would had they not been carrying some sort of injury.
I can recall years back when Greg Alexander had an injection before games because he had a broken ankle and at the end of the night he was dragging his leg like it was a lifeless stick attached to his arse. Yes it made him be able to perform but his performance was not that enhanced that he became the Dally M winner for that year
A P.E.D will enhance perform on the field (and lessen it off the field when the bit the women are really interested in shrinks), a pain killer allows you to perform (plus they get to keep the bit that the women really want)
I know a lot of players who use no-doze or other equivalents. In my mind this is performance enhancing to a degree. Im not saying a disagree with using it as i use it at work sometimes and also before some bball/footy matches.
Do people ever think about powerade/gatorade? If the science behind what it does is true, and you had a one on one match of some description where one person got more than the other, would you not consider that performance enhancing?
Same could be said for a team v team match, just on a larger scale.
Do people ever think about powerade/gatorade? If the science behind what it does is true, and you had a one on one match of some description where one person got more than the other, would you not consider that performance enhancing?
Same could be said for a team v team match, just on a larger scale.