I think cheating in sports can be considered as 'being bad' because it means the sportsman is not following the correct rules and regulations expected of them and therefore leading to serious punishment such as disqualification.
Many sportsmen take a drug known as an enhancer which makes them perform better. However, if found out they can face serious consequences. But they still take that risk. There are many reasons as to why people cheat, but I personally think that people cannot be faced with losing, and they have to be a winner. The pressure can get too much for people, so they feel the need to do anything to ensure that they win. Unfortunately most of the stories of cheating in sports involve the failure of drug tests. What I cannot understand is why the sports-person would take the drugs to enhance their performance in the first place because surely they know that they'll get found out when they fail their drug test.
I really think that people should think before they consider cheating, it isn't fair to those people who are actually trying their hardest. Cheating seems the easiest and laziest way to get somewhere you want to be.
Links: http://www.istadia.com/blog/DanPeterson/427
http://faculty.css.edu/tboone2/asep/CheatingInSports.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/5222786.stm
Many sportsmen take a drug known as an enhancer which makes them perform better. However, if found out they can face serious consequences. But they still take that risk. There are many reasons as to why people cheat, but I personally think that people cannot be faced with losing, and they have to be a winner. The pressure can get too much for people, so they feel the need to do anything to ensure that they win. Unfortunately most of the stories of cheating in sports involve the failure of drug tests. What I cannot understand is why the sports-person would take the drugs to enhance their performance in the first place because surely they know that they'll get found out when they fail their drug test.
I really think that people should think before they consider cheating, it isn't fair to those people who are actually trying their hardest. Cheating seems the easiest and laziest way to get somewhere you want to be.
Links: http://www.istadia.com/blog/DanPeterson/427
http://faculty.css.edu/tboone2/asep/CheatingInSports.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/5222786.stm
I think cheating is always going to be a big temptation to athletes at the top of individual sports. It is a very sad situation that we are in at the moment where so many of our sports have to be considered unfair due to so many athletes cheating. We all want to see fair competition and worthy winners and it is a disgrace to everyone involved, particularly the supporters and sponsors who put in a lot of time and effort in following their team/individual athlete.
ReplyDeleteBut it is easy to understand why cheating is so popular. The rewards nowadays are huge in many sports, millions and millions of pounds often on offer for victory and for competitors, failure is simply unthinkable. Cheating, maybe through performance-enhancing drugs/methods or influencing a game through simulation can give an athlete or team that increased chance of winning. To competitors under such huge pressure, sometimes they can't turn away from such an opportunity.
I very much understand why people cheat but I wish the authorities would make more of an effort to eradicate it and put in stricter punishments to take the temptation away from competitors. Examples for this could be to send off footballers who dive and fake injury or to give sprinters life-time bans for performance-enhancing drug use.