Dear Sir/Madam,

Everything in our world can be a boon and a bane and it hinges on how you use it. Drug is not an exception. Drugs have been used accessibly in the medical field so many of us are benefited from it, and using drugs aptly in this way is certainly right. Yet, contrary to the above, tremendous criticisms and assailments of using drugs in an illegal and cheating way are discussed for long and it is unquestionable that most of the people oppose it. Given the coming of the 2004 Olympic Games, I would like to express my views on doping in sports.

All of us know that through sports activities, we can enhance our tidal volume, vital capacity and the development of muscles, which in turn strengthens our bodies. Living in such a world with persistent changes and high pressure, playing sports like soccer, rugby, swimming, cycling will actually be considered as a resort to relaxing themselves. And having sports in this way, it can be regarded as a means of refreshing ourselves and hence increasing our working efficiency or improving our mental state. Further, sports can be a way of tempering our fighting morale and staying power. By having sport competitions with other players, we exert ourselves and above all, in the overall process, sports teach us there is a must to complete any task that you have chosen, no matter how difficult it is. “Sports have many benefits and surely it never stops”, as indicated by one of the top official from America Sports Organization. However, although there are so many advantages of playing sports, there are still people cheating the games by intake of invisible bane- the drugs.

Have you encountered the restless feeling because of cheating others in games like chess when you were young? In fact, that is the actual feeling of an athlete who wins the game by doping. Admittedly, winning in such a way will bring them the fame and fortune and people will respect him very much if no one finds the truth. However, they won’t earn the real feeling of winning but feel repentantly because they have never played the game in a fair way. Besides, once they have tried it and no one stops it, they will do it again. Then, wrong concept of playing sports will be built up in their mind and that is to win the competition by all methods. As winning the game in this way is not in a proper way and illegal, they will spoil the fairness and go against the real meanings of sports or even disqualified. As we all know, Olympic Games are absolutely fair and holy, letting drugs involve into it is by no mean possible and palatable.

As well as the bad influences on spoiling the fairness, doping during competitions can be seriously detrimental to health. Many drugs that can be used for athletes have many side effects, especially the sports-designer drugs. They can lead to hypertension, tachycardia, stroke, seizures androgenic changes, infertility and delivery of abnormal offspring and even death. And deaths of athletes in competition because of doping are therefore very common. Worse still, those athletes who are doping will not only have the risks of death, but also badly ruin the reputation of their own countries. Perhaps you may think that it is still worth doing that as winning the competitions will bring you a lot of money. Nevertheless, if you can only choose from either your lives or money, what will you choose then?

Sports cannot stand with drugs since doping will affect the fairness and the health states of athletes. Once others find that they use drugs to achieve their goals, no one will be proud of them and even look upon them, let alone be respected by others. Only by playing sports without drugs, athletes can enjoy the fun of sports and create a fantastic competition for the one who are sitting on the audience stage.

Yours faithfully,

Sam Leung