Steroid Abuse in Athletes – Noxious for Sprinters

When it comes to steroid abuse is the the wrong usage that one can give to the steroids, this one being completely noxious. Bodybuilders and other athletes are the ones more prone to approach the steroids to get more steps further than their rivals. But steroid abuse is unethical and at the same time illegal.

In sports terminology, steroid abuse is known as doping, the anabolic steroids (the doping of steroids) being strictly forbidden. Unfortunately, plenty of the sportsmen and women are abusing from the use of steroids including also the sports into cricket, weightlifting, track and field, shot put, baseball, cycling, wrestling, boxing, football, martial arts, etc.

This abuse has the purpose to reach to a competitive level that is on the top or else it is used in order to recove faster from various injuries. The ones that are used in the purpose of getting a certain advantage in competitons is strictly forbidden by rules that have been regulated by the governing institutions of many sports.

For instance, the International Association of Athletics Federations is known to be the first one to have taken the matter seriously. In 1928, the association has banned for the first time the steroid abuse. Later, in 1966, 1967, other governing bodies followed, such as International Olympic Committee, Union Cycliste Internationale, FIFA , but even so there are still a number of steroid abuse in the arenas of the international sporting games.

Ben Johnson, the Canadian sprinter, is known as the most famous case of steroid abuse in the late history of sports when he was discovered in 1988 Summer Olympics with stanozolol, an anabolic steroid, in his urine test. As such his gold title was removed from him and later he admitted to have used steroids in the form of Cypionate, Dianabol, Furazabol and a human growth hormone.

All these cases have lead to the establishing in 1999 of World Anti-Doping Agency to fight against steroid abuses in sports. Now this agency deals with all the major events of international sporting although at lower levels this abuse is still on.

Marion Jones-Thompson after winning five medals at 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney has admitted that she was under performance enhancing drugs and as such all of her medals and prizes were forfeited. The use of anabolic steroids is still practiced among the youngsters who are into sports at lower levels and according to some surveys it has been affirmed that 2.7% of the high school-ers who are into sports use these steroid abuse.

This percentage is valid in the range of teenagers, but it is rather hard to determine at what extent people who are into sporting activties prefer launching themselves into steroid abuse.