Should drugs be banned in sport? (persuasive essay)

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What about drugs in sports then? Does anyone condone drugs in sport? Of course not! If I was on the World Anti-Doping Agency looking for people who were taking drugs in sport I'd take every cheating sportsman I find, lock them in a cage and throw away the key, unfortunately, that can't happen, so we should do the next best thing - ban them for life. My outlook on the whole drugs in sport affair comes in the wake of many of our British sportsmen being tested positive for taking various types of drugs, such as Nandrolone and THG. In the past couple of months we have had the huge case on England international footballer Rio Ferdinand and his missing drugs test case, we have had Dwain Chambers, the European 100m record-holder, who was tested positive for THG and more recently we have had the Greg Rusedski case. The British number two tennis player has tested positive for the banned drug nandrolone and in the past Ben Johnson tested positive after his world-record winning run at the at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Both Dwain Chambers and Greg Rusedski deny taking the drugs but both could face serious consequences if they are actually found guilty after their appeal. Of course as a supporter of British sports I hope they are both found innocent and cleared of the charges made against them, but if they are found guilty there should be no lesser punishment than banning them from sport for life.

So what do these drugs actually do? Is there any need for taking them? Well Designer steroid is the phrase the world has been waiting for. This is not a pathetic case of a poor little sportsman with the wrong cough medicine, No, THG, or Tetrahydrogestrinone for short, has every...