Lance Armstrong spent years vehemently denying his use of performance enhancing drugs, while literally dominating the world of cycling, amazing cash winnings, media attention and a worldwide following. After seven consecutive wins at the Tour de France, he was outed for his long-time doping use and in 2012 was stripped of all titles, and banned for life from competitive cycling. (Emily Kendy). Doping was the reason Mr. Armstrong had all of his success in competitive cycling. He was so successful with his career and his doping he had got a nike sponsorship for his achievement.I feel that he saw that he needed to dope in order to achieve not only his goals but his dream. Unfortunately he was striped from his titles and he then was banned from the sport he loved because he admitted to it. He was not the only one who felt the need to dope because there's still people today that dope for every race, game, or match. Although athletes taking performance enhancing drugs is illegal , athletes should be able to take performance enhancing substances because they see …show more content…
According to Athletes everywhere they hate losing so that drive tells us that they are highly motivated and are prepared to do whatever it takes to win. To elaborate when you have that motivation to do what makes you happy and you do it with no stop or pause. Also when athletes see when they can take an advantage over someone “who wouldn’t take it”. “Whatever means that athletes resort to, when they want to improve there skill”. To sum up this means if an athlete were to get injured and they are able to compete but not at a high level then they would use doping. Also most athletes in football are raw strength and they never want to stop their improvement in strength so they see people using these things and they think “why shouldn’t