Doping should not be allowed in sports

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Doping Should not be Allowed in Sports
Mankind is naturally competitive, and it is in everyone’s nature to want to be number one or to achieve a certain feat. However, this want often happens to get the best of mankind, and some people use whichever means to try and increase their advantage over their counterparts. Well, in athletics, this simple act of increasing one’s advantage has led to a lot of buzz in the past few years with several athletes retired and active having to pay fines and relinquishing their titles. The name given to individuals who seek to increase their performance is dopers, and the act is doping. People have debated over the issue of doping, and there is still a divide between the sides as one still believes that doping should be made legal, and the other believes that the prohibition of doping should stand. Athletes dope for different reasons but the main one is to help them increase their competitive advantage over their counterparts. It might seem unfair to some, but others believe it is not wrong and that instead of prohibiting doping, athletes should be allowed to use performance-enhancing drugs. This article seeks to counter this notion and argues that doping should remain illegal, and this is mainly because it will enhance unfairness in sports, introduce newer and complex regulations, endanger the lives of athletes, and destroy the image of sports.
Allowing doping will indeed enhance unfairness in sports. This will happen because legalizing doping will give the rich and wealthy athletes the advantage because they will have access to whichever drugs that the markets have available. The notion that allowing doping will lead to fairness in sports is indeed distorted because it will favor some athletes leaving the rest to find whichever drugs or means to allow them to remain competitive. Today, there is a lot of unfairness which is not brought about by doping but by the training kits and services some athletes have access to. However, regardless of the differing kits and services and trainers, some athletes can fight for their positions and win in spite of their situations. These athletes defeat the rich and wealthy athletes because of their hard work and not doping. Introducing doping will ensure that such feats are never possible because the rich and wealthy will have everything in their favor. Additionally, it may not be surprising to see countries invest billions in helping ensure that their athletes get the best drugs further enhancing unfairness. Burnett (2016) notes that “countries like the US and China would have the resources and infrastructure to obtain the best performance enhancers for their athletes and maximize their safety when using them.” Developing countries, on the other hand, will be left to make do with the little resources and the available drugs.
Secondly, allowing doping will also lead to more regulations which means that more money will be spent. While it may not be an expensive venture to come up with regulations, it costs a lot to implement the developed regulations. Burnett (2016) notes that “we’d likely end up with more regulation as well, as organizations have to determine which drug...