The Doping Illusion

All the talk about doping in sports, specifically the newest revelations in track and field, will push many to believe that all elite athletes are using drugs to enhance performance. Anti-doping is struggling to keep pace in an infinite war. The thing that I’m here to tell you is: DOPING DOESN’T MAKE ATHLETES, it makes them perform better. Doping control is doing a good job at snuffing drugs out, but we’ve created a bigger problem. Our mindset about how much doping there is. A problem that compounds the doping conundrum is when elite athletes are involved.  What exacerbates the issue more is that we look to elite athletes as the models, dare I say “role models” for our sport.  It has been proven that the more a topic is discussed via mainstream media, the more awareness comes to that topic.

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