Ethical Dilemmas Of Cheating In Sports

Sociologists contend that these ethical dilemmas arise because the sports have turned into spectator sports and hence the pressure and the urge to entertain has turned the competition element from sports to mere entertainment (Foddy, 2007). The emergence of spectator sports mean that the element of commercialisation has also been associated with the sports, which has increased the pressure to give good performance on the athletes. In certain cases, the political situations between the two countries even have an impact on the sports where both the parties make desperate attempts to win the game and hence may take help of the steroids of other performance enhancing drugs. Although all these factors can build up a strong argument as to why an

The experts on sports presume that these issues hence are not instructive, financial or social but rather basically moral and ethical (Reardon, 2010). The challenge has turned out to be one amongst specialists and doctors on one side and the managing experts on the other. The athlete turns into the casualty of a science that ought to help reasonable performance, as health risks are usually ignored and athletes hence cannot truly participate in a competition, unless they also have drugs administered in their bodies for enhanced performance (Wiesing, 2011). Moreover, in some cases the athletes have become so dependent on the recreational drugs that they feel that they cannot perform well without

It started when the sportsmen started consuming drugs just out of a quest for thrill and eventually fell addicted to them. The testing initially started at the major sports events like Olympics, marathons and at FIFA, however, it was majorly ignored at the other sports events which were considered small at commercial value. This led to the birth of an athlete lot who would engage in ‘sports of drugs’, where drugs would majorly monitor their performance and hence they would not be able to perform, either mentally or physically without them. Therefore, in order to maintain the ethics of the sports and in order to keep it a virtual display of chivalry, healthy competition and fair play; international sports authorities including FIFA, ICC, IOC and Olympics must engage in thorough testing of the athletes, Moreover, they must engage with the national governments of these athletes and must communicate to them the need to set-up corrective programs where the athletes who are addicted to these drugs must be treated. Moreover, the international bodies must set-up regulations by consulting the athletes themselves, so that they may not think that the rules have been forcefully implemented on them (Smith,