Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Marion Jones
In the past week, former U.S. sprinter Marion Jones has admitted to using steroids between 2000 and 2001. Since the BALCO investigation in 2003 Jones has been accused of steroid use. Since this admission Jones has given back her five medals that she won at the 2000 Olympics in Syndney. Olympic Officials have also decide to completly remove her name from the record books. Jones finally came clean after years of denying use of performance inhancing drugs. Although this whole situation has been bad for U.S. track and field and the whole sport itself, I do believe some good can come from this. Everyone knows of Jones's links to BALCO and all the other high profile atheletes that have been linked to it as well. Maybe this confession will inspire other atheletes to come forward about their use of steroids as well. This admission of guilt can go a long way toward cleaning up the world of sports and removing some of the stains that have been left on many sport's images. Atheletes who have long denied steroid use might finally see the light and recognize what they did was wrong. Maybe suspected users like Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds will see what everyone else does and admit their own steroid use. If this event has the desired effect, we can finally find out who is illegitimate and who the real record holders are. However, most juicers probably will not admit their steroid use and probably never will. But if one person comes clean after this happening, just a little good will have come from a very bad situation.
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Kevin has some really good ideas here. However I don't agree with all of them. This siuation with Jones may have some medal winners come clean but I think that athletes nowadays have the mindset if I can get away with it it's worth it. I don't think they will come clean. Also, if athletes think they need to take steroids to do well they shouldn't be in the race in the first place. Athletes need to rely on natural talent, not some substance to make them perform better. If the athlete feels they need to do better they should work harder. Sports has become a game of cheating and it's ruining the game.
I like the idea of little good but at the same time it is still perceived as negative press. When and if players do it admits they cheated, that’s thing it’s more cheating. That results in the game being more tainted. Yes being honest is a good and brave thing to do, but the game or games with steroid users in it still get negatively branded regardless of the situation. Its also negative of the fact the longer these people deny that they did not use steroids then eventually do admit. It just shows a lack of respect towards the game and the fans.
I think that with what Marion Jones did, say that she did use steroids, it might lead to more athletes that are suspected of using might also say that they did use because Jones did. If more athletes come out and say that they used the public would know who are the real athletes and who are the “fake” athletes. Also those who admit that they used might be forgiven faster than those who still don’t admit. In reality I don’t think that more athletes will say that they used steroids because they don’t want to get the public ridicule.
I like the blog topic you have written about. What Marion Jones did by taking steroids was wrong but in today’s sports so many people are cheating to get the upper hand on their opponents and it’s horrible. This is the wrong image for younger kids to see players who are good taking steroids. In my high school I had players who were taking steroids and they aren't even at that high of an athletic competition. Steroids are starting to run sports and they need to find a way to eliminate all enhancing drugs in sports or sports will fall. It is a shame that athletes have to result to steroids in order to do well in sports, what ever happened to hard work and determination? I am so mad at the athletes using steroids and I think they are setting a really bad example for their fans.
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