Would you cheat to earn a million

By Gerardo Granados: Performance enhancing drugs are all over professional sports leagues around the world, Olympic and professional athletes have been caught cheating but many times they have never been detected while their prime. Is this problem a health issue, moral or is it a matter of greed?

Every time an athlete gets caught he will say he did not knew, he was not aware he was taking a substance, that he had a cold or any other crazy excuse like he was young inexperienced. Do the reader believes that a professional athlete can be so naive and irresponsible to not notice that he could get in trouble if he takes any of the banned substances that he is obliged to know he can not take.

Professional boxing is a business and prize fighters must earn as much money as they can while active but is it acceptable to cheat to win. Maybe we should know what cheating is before making an argument. To use any banned substance to help you improve your performance, hyperbolic chambers and plasters can be considered as cheating too, but if there was a substance, lets say “boxidrolone” a new design drug that improves strength, speed, power and stamina, could it be possible that it would not be detected? If you test a fighter for cocaine or nandrolone he will be caught, but maybe he might have taken another substance to clean himself before been tested for cocaine or nandrolone so you will test him for that drug too; problem is that if you don’t know what to look for you probably wont find it.

If the reader was a prize fighter and had the chance to earn a million per fight would you be tempted to cheat or would you stick by the rules. You can take protein shakes, creatine or glutamine while lifting weights at a local gym but you can not take nandrolone, are you playing by the rules or are you cheating yourself?

Maybe not only for medical reasons performance enhancement drugs must be banned from boxing but also because this is a moral social issue. What would you do to achieve your goals? If you could secure your life time income by cheating and having a big chance to get away with it, would you do it?

You can take the substances that are not banned and the use will not be considered as cheating. The reader has heard many times athletes saying that while they were juicing other athletes do it to, so it is acceptable? At the end to cheat is what makes you a crook but aren’t you cheating by using any substance to help you improve your natural performance?

There is no valid reason to allow any prize fighter to use performance enhancement drugs because this is a contact sport, the goal is to hurt your rival, to beat him beyond any doubt. So if you cheat you will take an illicit edge on your rival and you could permanently hurt him or even worst. Is it time for the boxing organizations to improve their tests?

Boxing is a dangerous sport, I would love to earn a million but I would hate to permanently hurt a clean fighter to fulfill my greed. Would you cheat to earn a million?