Almost all of use have played a team sport thought out our life, thought many of us were never very successful. We have all looked up to a person and seen them as our hero, these heroes are who we try to become. For many of us that hero was an athlete, they could jump into the sky or run like the wind. But what happens to our view of this person when we see a medal torn from there neck because of doping?
             Our view was crushed believing in a drug user, we ask our selves why would they result to drugs?
             The result can be pressure and the need to be the best. The people, who are taking the sport out of the Olympic games or the amateur athletics world, are clouding our vision. We need more control by the associations for athletics to prevent and stop doping in amateur sports. Young athletes look up to these players as heroes but by looking up to an athlete using drugs may just start them down the unsuccessful path of doping.
             Anyone who is involved in sports has felt the pressures of success; coaches, teammates and parents constantly pressure athletes. These pressures don't benefit athletes but can force then into doping to ease the pressure of succeeding. With competitive sports comes the need to win, the need to do better with each game you play. Every game they play showed a lack of enough effort, soon players can convince them selves to do better they need to build them selves stronger. Doping causes athletes to build a false sense of success, this false success creates an unfair advantage over the other athletes. The Olympic games are about being the best you can be and trying to prove that to the world. At every Olympic games doping has become a common problem, every athlete is screened looking for one of the banned substances. There are more and more cases of athletes having there medal taken from them for doping. Doping causes an embarrassment for the country and the athlete, there is nothing w
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