Steroids use in sports can damage an athlete’s well-earned reputation
by admin ~ October 19th, 2009.
In 2003, Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative was incriminated of providing anabolic steroids, HGH and other performance-enhancing drugs to professional players in the MLB and in US Track and Field. Several of those athletes include Jason Giambi, Bill Romanowski and Marion Jones.
Perhaps, baseball is the sport with the biggest steroid controversies. Some of the grandest and greatest names in baseball have been related to steroids use, particularly in the BALCO scandal.
The most notable being Barry Bonds, who is well known for Hank Aaron’s home run record. These days, he is also identified for another thing, his affiliation with steroids. Bonds, no matter how satisfactory his records are in baseball, could never get a contract with any MLB teams and expended all his 2008 with no activity.
Added to the BALCO scandal was the list of 104 players who failed the drug test in 2003. The list was obliged to be kept classified until federal agents illicitly impounded the list during a BALCO search.
Irrespective of the rewards it could bring to an athlete’s professional career, the side effects could not be neglected. Its life-long result in the reputation of professional sports can also be damaging.
From Bleacher Report:
Category: Anabolic Steroids | Tags: Anabolic Steroids, BALCO, HGH, MLBA new era of baseball is in progress. Pitchers with 210 strikeouts a season, hitters getting over 500 home runs a year with 40 stolen bases. All regular statistics nowadays, but are they legit?
Ever since the late 1980s many sports figures (mostly baseball) have been linked to PED’s (Performance Enhancing Drugs). Some of these athletes include the biggest names in baseball. Even though the testing and tolerance level has grown stricter and stricter over the years drug use has continued to increase.