Your Issues
October 2003
Where you can make a difference
Drugs in Sport
Visit the Drugs in Sport website.
What do you think of athletes that take performance-enhancing drugs? Why do you think they do it? What affect do you think it has on the athletes who don't take drugs? Is it fair? How are drugs affecting sport? How can we stop drugs cheats? Should they be named and shamed? What should their punishments be?
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A test for a banned performance-enhancing drug called THG has been developed. THG is a anabolic steroid which helps to build muscle. It's catching lots of athletes in back-tests from before the World Athletics Championships. How do you think this will effect the Olympics in Athens 2004?
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Dwain Chambers is one of the athletes who has tested positive for THG. Great Britain could be stripped of the World Championship 4x100m silver medals because he was part of the team. He denies taking it. So, did he take it on purpose, and if so, why? Or maybe you think he's innocent; do you think he was spiked?
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There has been lots of other news about drugs in sport too. Kelli White tested positive for a drug called Modafinil, which fights tiredness, and is used in the treatment of narcolepsy. She could face a two-year ban, and be stripped of her World Championship 100m and 200m medals which she won in Paris. She now claims to be narcoleptic. So, why didn't she say so straight away? Why didn't she declare the drug? Do you believe her?
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It's not all doom and gloom though. There are plenty of athletes out there who are determined to abolish drugs in sport. One of these is Paula Radcliffe, who openly campaigned against the use of EPO at the Edmonton World Championships. She also helped to make blood tests routine for sports people, and always runs wearing a red ribbon, to symbolise that she is pro anti-doping. So, why don't all athletes follow her example?
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What makes people want to win so bad that feel they have to cheat?
