Steroids and the Olympics

There was a time when people competed fairly and no one complained of cheating with performance enhancing drugs. But that time is far from now. Foreign countries first started using steroids in the mid 20th century to aid their teams in the Olympics. At this time, no one really knew anything about performance enhancers, so they had no way of knowing that it was cheating to use them. They just assumed they had found a great way to get much stronger much faster. When these other countries started using, we had to use also just to keep up. Well, the Olympics found out about the enhancers and they decided that something needed to be done to stop the use of illegal enhancers. So, they started testing for the basic enhancer and hoped that the countries would see that they were going to be tested and then stop using the drugs in all. The only problem is that the Olympics were only testing for the basic enhancer of that time so all the users had to do was tweak the drug a little bit to avoid it showing up on the test. People were still using performance enhancers now even though the Olympics had started testing for them. This game continued for a while. They would improve their tests but then the athletes would just keep finding the loop holes and avoid getting caught using. Finally, the Olympics figured out how to prevent all steroids and such from being used at the games. With this though, athletes would just use their drug until about a month before the games and then stop using so that it would not show up on the tests at game time. To this day, athletes continue to find loop holes in the system so that they can keep using performance enhancers. Perhaps if the Olympics had just eliminated the thought of steroids when it first came up, people would not be using them now. Either way, it continues to be a big problem in sports today and there seems to be no real solution to completely removing them from the athletic society.