Premises 2: If a Professional Or Colligate Athlete Uses Performance-Enhancing Drugs They

Integrity Of The Game

Premises 1:There are rules against the use of Performance-enhancing drugs in all American professional and colligate sports.

All Major American professional and colligate sports carry rules and regulations that prohibit the use of performance enhancing drugs. The National Football League established its banned substance policy in 1987. In the NFL collective bargaining agreement it states the league can perform random drug test annually. It also states that all players must complete one urine sample annually. The National Basketball Association created its anti-drug policy in 1983. The NBA may have the most lenient drug policy stating that all players are subject to random drug testing during pre-season but the league must have reasonable cause. All rookies must be tested at least three times at random during their rookie campaign. The National Hockey League started its drug testing policy most recently, in 2005. The NHL can test its athletes up to three times a year. This urine test can only be taken during the NHL season and cannot be taken on the athletes off days. In 1976 the International Olympic committee introduced the most strenuous drug policy. It states that it can test any Olympic athlete 24 hours a day 365 days a year.The National Collegiate Athletic Association started testing its athletes in 1986. Collegiate athletes are tested at random at any point in the year.

Premises 2: If a professional or colligate athlete uses performance-enhancing drugs they are cheating.

Throughout history there have been several cases of individuals taking performance enhancing drugs and being reprimanded for their actions. Some of the more notable cases evolve world-renowned athletes,“January 11, 2008 - Marion Jones was sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty in October 2007 to lying to investigators about her steroid use. February 9, 2009 - New York Yankees infielder Alex Rodriguez admits to using performance-enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2003 while playing for the Texas Rangers. March 7, 2016 - At a press conference, tennis player Maria Sharapova admits to failing a drug test at the Australian Open in January. She says she has been taking the drug meldonium since 2006 and didn't realize it had been declared a banned substance at the start of 2016. On June 8, 2016, the International Tennis Federation announces Sharapova is suspended for two years”(CNN, 2016).

Conclusion: Therefore, professional or colligate individual performance-enhancing drug users jeopardize the integrity of their sport.

If an individual that is a participant in professional or colligate sports and they partake in the use of performance enhancing drugs they are jeopardizing the integrity of the game. If there were no entities to police the use of performance enhancing drugs, several individuals would use them. Some individuals would not use performance-enhancing drugs, which leads to the divide. The fact that you cannot make all individuals use performance-enhancing drugs settles the argument. These entities are constructed to ensure that no one uses performance-enhancing drugs. This keeps the field of competition fair.

References

Andy Dolich (January 9, 2013), Sports drug testing policies: NFL, NBA, NHL,Olympics

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