In the world of professional sports, doping has always been a much-talked topic that has been able to attract attention of sportsmen as well as the general public. But still after WADA made it clear that a sportsman needs to be fair and strong to ethics, a large number of players are seen abusing steroids.

Let us have a clear understanding of doping to have a clear and complete understanding of the same.

From Whitehousedrugpolicy.gov:

Doping is the use of a substance that artificially enhances athletic performance. These substances often pose a significant risk to the health and well-being of athletes. The use of performance-enhancing drugs undermines the ideals of sports and devalues and debases the rewards of competition. Despite the range of health risks and ethical implications, many athletes at both the professional and amateur levels use these dangerous substances.

One of the most effective ways to combat doping is by supporting and working collaboratively with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). WADA was established to harmonize and coordinate an effective international program to detect, deter, and prevent doping. The United States plays a leadership role in WADA, serving on WADA’s governing board and on many working committees. The United States is the largest funder of the organization and was also recently elected to represent the entire 41-nation region of the Americas on WADA’s Executive Committee.

The awareness drive, initiated by the United States Government, will surely bring a complete awareness about steroids and the consequences of steroids in sports.

But the thing that cannot be completely ruled out that till then, steroids would have been almost impossible to pull down from sports. The doubts are increasing in their numbers as professional athletes, all over the world, are now recognizing the fact there seems to be a great possibility to allow steroids in sports.

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There have many talks about the usage of steroids in sports. While some advocate its usage, others went off record to say that steroids can be lethal if abused. Whatever be the thought about this, there is no denying the ‘mutual’ relationship between steroids and sports.

If steroids are such a problem, why do professional athletes, sportsmen, and bodybuilders continue taking them? Why do even the high school athletes prefer them? The reason is simple – anabolic steroids work.

The name of Barry Tyson cannot be ignored who made a legitimate use of steroids to fight off HIV infections. Let us read some part of the excerpt reported in CBS News’ Sunday Morning Cover Story by Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN to make a judgment.

From CBS News.com:

Tyson said. “I noticed a change in my energy level. I noticed a change in my appetite. I noticed a change in how much I could push at the gym.”

And how crucial were steroids in his recovery?

“It was very important especially because it’s putting on that muscle that helps fight infection,” Tyson said.

To understand anabolic steroids, let’s take a look back: First developed in the 1930s, they’re synthesized from the male hormone testosterone. They’ve been used to treat wasting conditions, like HIV-AIDS and cancer. They stimulate bone growth and appetite. But along the way, these useful drugs got hijacked.

“Like many things, the steroids were developed for a purpose, which is to treat people who had deficiency,” said Dr. Jeffrey Lennox, an HIV-AIDS specialist at Emory University in Atlanta.

“And when people saw how much better people felt, that they put on muscle mass, that they got stronger because we were replacing the male hormones, athletes started to add additional hormones on top of their natural production and noticed increases in strength,” Lennox said.

It can be clearly seen that qualified use of steroids in sports or other activities cannot be termed as wrong; the problem arises when an indiscriminate usage of steroids is done to gain instant results.

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As per the findings of French researchers that were published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, children as young as eleven are using drugs to enhance their sporting performance and stay ahead of the competition.

It was also found during the study that while 44 percent of children under eleven confessed to use of steroids in sports, the number got increased from 1.2 to 3.0 percent in case of children who celebrated their 15th birthday.

From News-Medical.Net:

The children completed questionnaires every six months about their use of doping agents, tobacco, alcohol and cannabis; involvement in sports; and assessed self-esteem and anxiety.

The French team found that more than one per cent of eleven year olds admitted to using performance enhancing drugs to do better in sports but by age 15, the number had increased from 1.2 to 3% and they were then being used on a regular basis.

While 62% of eleven years olds used doping agents less than once per month, at 15 the same number were using them at least every week and 24% on a daily basis.

Most commonly used to improve sporting prowess was the drug salbutamol, which was taken by 45% of users; 10% took corticosteroids and 6% cannabis and other stimulants and 38% anabolic agents.

Boys were more likely to take the drugs than girls and 4% experienced health problems, because of doping including becoming violent, changes to the voice and loss of consciousness.

Drug use was linked to sex, number of hours of practice per week, intention to use, other drug use, low self-esteem and anxiety.

This study was concerned with the use of drugs banned under the World Anti-Doping Agency International Standard and involved answers to questions asked from 3,500 eleven-year olds.

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Dexter Jackson is probably one of the more reasonable looking bodybuilders of today, at 5’6, 220lbs. competitive shape, he’s pretty well rounded. Of course, he should be about 200-205 lbs., as he was before he became witness to the monster that is Ronnie Coleman. The truth is that in modern day bodybuilding, Shawn Ray is the closest thing to a normal human looking bodybuilder, at 5’7, 205-210 lbs. he was a good example of more mainstream bodybuilder. Dexter Jackson should strive for the Shawn Ray look and not the nasty Ronnie Coleman look. In due time, steroids and HGH wont matter anymore and bodybuilding will be judged on pure mainstream look!

Dexter Jackson Arnold Classic 2008 Posing:

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More and more USA taxpayers are saying that investigations into Steroid use in Baseball are not worth public’s tax dollars. It seems the public is finally sick of ongoing investigations into whether Barry Bonds hit a home run while injecting trenbolone, or Roger Clemens took HGH while throwing a pitch. The US congress is ignoring a full blown national recession in the USA, a housing crisis, skyrocketing debt, and the failing war in Iraq; instead the concentration seems to be in finding out needle was stuck into Roger Clemens’ ass when he took steroids while playing baseball. Millions (that’s right MILLIONS) of USA taxpayer dollars have been spent on countless steroid investigations into baseball, and thousands of hours (hours that should be used to help USA citizens) have been spent to eradicate the LEAST influential problem in sports today. That’s right, steroids are the least influential problem today. Baseball has many other problems which need to be dealt with, but not by US Congress but by MLB – who is responsible for dealing with baseball and related regulations.

Interesting that NFL is not being targeted in steroid probes as of yet, probably because American Football is the most valuable sport in America, with many teams in the NFL worth over 1,000,000,000 (1billion) US dollars! They have so much influence that you’re not going to see investigations into who used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone (HGH) or anything of that nature. It’s politics and money. Everyone already knows all NFL players use steroids, whether it’s testosterone or HGH, the fact is 99%+ of NFL players are on some type of drugs.

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We trying to understand this! can someone please explain to us why Jay Cutler says he’s not using steroids but more like creatine, protein and MuscleTech? please Jay, if you’re on TV at least cut the bullshit and don’t make bodybuilders look stupid.  It’s not enough that Pro Bodybuilding is a joke, but you need to make bodybuilders look like idiots too?

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Congress has now release 2 different reports on Roger Clemens and whether he used steroids or not. At this point, steroids are becoming a partisan issue, with Democrats supporting Brian McNamee (Clemens former trainer) and Republicans supporting Roger Clemens with his claim that he didn’t use steroids but thought he was getting B12 shots (right!). The truth is that Roger Clemens used steroids and human growth hormone, that’s obvious. The other side of the coin is, it’s none of the government’s business. Dealing with steroids in baseball should be left to the MLB, and steroids in sports to the respective professional organizations such as NFL and so on. Having congress waste time and money to find out whether Roger Clemens used steroids is so far out of reach, it’s ludicrous.

This brings us to our next point, why is the USA congress wasting so much time and taxpayer money on hearings to find out if Roger Clemens used steroids? It’s amazing the American taxpayers who are in such deep economic problems are still putting up with this, but do they have a choice? Let’s face it, in the USA you can’t vote for your laws, you can vote for your representative, who end up spending all your taxpayer dollars on bullshit. Let’s look at the story below. Both Democrats and Republicans released reports, 100s of pages wide, on Roger Clemens and his steroid use in baseball. They wasted millions of taxpayer dollars on a debate that is so idiotic that people in other countries are taking a hilarity notice. Many in Europe are drawing funny cartoons of congress investigating steroids while the USA economy is collapsing behind them and people standing in soup lines. Obviously, EVERY single god damn minute the US congress spends on steroid investigations should be spent on fixing the USA economy and war in Iraq to start, then move to health care!

A month after House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., released a memo questioning whether former ballplayer Roger Clemens lied to Congress about his alleged steroid use, Republicans fired back Tuesday, releasing a report of their own that disputes some of the Democrats’ prior conclusions and likens the Democrats’ report to a “prosecutorial indictment” of Clemens.

The Republican rebuttal dismisses as irrelevant the Waxman memo’s outline of “seven sets of assertions, made by Mr. Clemens in his testimony, that appear to be contradicted by other evidence before the committee, or implausible.”

“The Democratic staff memorandum’s characterizations and conclusions regarding these other matters is simply not relevant to the core question of whether Clemens knowingly lied about using anabolic steroids and human growth hormone (HGH),” the minority report said.

The 109-page Republican report includes new testimony about Clemens’ former trainer Brian McNamee’s allegations that Clemens attended a 1998 party at then-teammate Jose Canseco’s house, Clemens’ statements that he received vitamin B-12 injections from McNamee, and McNamee’s accusations that Clemens developed an abscess on his buttocks, an injury that could have been the result of steroid injections.

It is the latest salvo in a bitterly partisan issue dating back to the pitcher’s contentious Feb. 13 hearing.

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It seems the concept of double jeopardy is lost on the prosecutors in the Barry Bonds case. Barry Bonds is now being tried on the same perjury charges in regards to his lying about steroid use, but that’s AFTER his first perjury case was thrown out. So how can the government prosecute someone in the same steroid case 2x with the same evidence? sounds unconstitutional, well it is! It’s called Double Jeopardy, and whether steroids or HGH are involved it doesn’t matter:

Double jeopardy is a procedural defense (and, in many countries such as the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan and India, a constitutional right) that forbids that a defendant be tried twice for the same crime on the same set of facts

As far as the government prosecutors are showing, the same set of perjury facts about Barry Bonds lying about his use of anabolic steroids he got from BALCO, and the SAME “crime” of lying about steroid use in general. What, then, is his crime? since his 1st case was thrown out?

Federal prosecutors said on Wednesday they would seek a new indictment against home run king Barry Bonds after previous perjury charges were recently thrown out.

So, are we trying to find justice or just get Barry Bonds anyway we can because he used steroids? No matter if it’s constitutional or not!

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Priorities of congress seem out of this world.  Steroid probes are ongoing and non stop, with constant investigations of baseball players and daily waste of taxpayer money on anabolic steroid argument.  But, something is forgotten about this hearings; the MANY other REAL issues congress is not talking about: example, US Economy, War in Iraq, Children’s Education!  Let’s just forget the top priorities of the US taxpayers and citizens, and move into steroid probes followed by investigations of baseball players – FORCING the FBI to figure out if Roger Clemens lied??!??! (who cares right?)

Robbin Griffin, a Board of Education President, spoke out against the non stop steroid probes:

 “I am just going to say it: my great frustration these two weeks have been turning on the TV and watching our federal government engaged and talking about steroids and baseball players and not dealing with No Child Left Behind,” Mrs. Griffin said during Tuesday’s meeting of the board of education. “It angers me. I think their priorities are kind of screwed up, but that’s just me.”
Mrs. Griffin urged members of the school board and the community to contact U.S. Congressman John McHugh and U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton and urge them to support the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act.

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There have been a lot of questions about the legality of steroids in particular sports.  On the main firing range has been baseball (a dying sport), and whether steroid use was legal in baseball.  Did you know that anabolic steroids and human growth hormone were NOT banned in baseball until 2004? it means you could buy steroids legally with a prescription and use them legally as a baseball player.  However, that all changed when Barry Bonds was bought to trial for steroid use.  The truth is that Barry Bonds didn’t break any rules.  He might have broken a steroid usage law, but he had no steroid possession nor did he ever sell steroids – on top of this, Barry Bonds followed the steroid and HGH rules and bylaws of the pre 2004 MLB! He used steroids when steroids were legal, so why was he attacked?  Purely for attention and media hype.  Barry Bonds is as guilty as a guy who had a car accident and didn’t tell the whole truth to the police, or the 16 year old caught with the marijuana joint.

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