Statistics About Drugs in Sport
After each and every year, new athletes were born while the old ones
need to push themselves more so that the young generation of athletes
would not beat them during the competition.
But no matter what generation an athlete belongs to, sport drugs are
widely used by the athletes all over the world. As a result the growth
of the number of athletes using drugs is rapidly increasing, year after
year.
A survey and drug testing was done in East Germany last year among the
professional as well as amateur German athletes. According to the
statistics, the number of athletes using prohibited sport drugs remained
constant since 2004.
From the annual report that was given by the Federal Institute of Sports
Sciences located in Bonn, there were as much as 8,000 German athletes
but only 56 athletes were proven to be using the illegal sport drugs.
According to the same report, the figures became a plateau as the
results became consistent. In 2006, there were at least 7,900 athletes
in Germany who have undergone the drug test but only 40 athletes were
using sport drugs. And as for 2005, there were at least 9,000 athletes
who had the test but only 60 were proven to be positive.
But of course, sport drugs or the topic of doping among sports men (and
sometimes even women) is not just in Germany alone. There are also drug
tests done in United Kingdom. And just like in Germany, it also gave
wonderful results as well.
In 2007, UK Sport conducted a drug test program among its 7, 082
athletes. This includes the athletes playing football, basketball,
wrestling, body building, professional boxing and more. When the results
were released, it revealed that only 44 athletes are using prohibited
drugs. The 44 athletes include 5 rugby players, 1 athlete in shooting,
14 players in rugby league, 1 athlete in power lifting, 1 motorcycle
rider, 1 lawn tennis players, 1 athlete in judo, 1 player of ice hockey,
6 football players, 2 athletes in fencing, and 2 basketball players.
There are even two disabled athletes who failed the drug test conducted
by the UK sports.
But although the results turned out to be quite good enough in Germany
and in United Kingdom, the recent statistics and surveys conducted for
2008 revealed that the use of sport drugs among athletes all over the
world is still a huge problem. What’s worse is that the problem is still
rapidly increasing especially to the athletes in college. Although these
athletes know that their health is at a great risk, they are still kept
on experimenting at a very young age the various substances that they
can take just to achieve the medal that they want in the competition.
According to the latest statistics from World Anti-Doping Agency, as
early as high school, athletes are now taking anabolic steroids to
enhance their performance. More often than not, high school athletes
were using anabolic steroids to help them cope up with the pressure in
order to perform better for their parent’s satisfaction, for their
coaches, and for the scouts who are always on the look out for a new
breed of athletes.
As of the moment, what the real athletes are worried about is the
upcoming Olympics along with the era of drug for athlete, also known as
the gene doping. With the gene doping currently existing in the sports
industry, it is likely that the statistics of drug in sports would
increase by as much as 30 percent. |
