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Steroid use in professional sports is cheating and illegal. The reason is because steroids and other similar performance enhancing drugs, gives the athletes an unfair advantage over other athlete working through their own efforts. Despite the drug being illegal, it hasn’t stopped any of the athletes from taking steroids, just so they can improve their game. Many athletes believe that they could get away with using steroids, but once they were caught, their athlete careers were over.

Marion Jones was a world champion in field and track. She held many records and won several medals. Her most significant win was the five metals she won in the 2000 Summer Olympics. Marion was stripped of all of her medals and prizes, when in 2007, after her name was on the BALCO list that supplied anabolic steroids. She was also convicted of perjury when she testified in two trials that she never used steroids. She ended up serving 6 months in jail in 2008.

Tim Montgomery, was also implicated in the BALCO scandal. He was a former athlete in the US Olympics in the field and track team. He was a former partner of Marion Jones. He was banned for two years and he finally had to retire from sports.

Barry Bonds, one of the greatest players in the entire history of baseball with 762 home runs to his name, found that all of his achievements were overshadowed by the rumor he uses steroids. He too became a central figure in the BALCO scandal. He also lied about it during the Grand Jury. Barry Bonds was not re-signed to the San Francisco Giants and became a free agent. So far he has had no activity in professional baseball.

Ken Caminiti, who played for the Atlanta Braves and who won 3 Golden Gloves and was the 1996 MVP, was the first to admit to using steroids. This admission led to Congressional inquiries concerning the use of performance enhancers for baseball players.

We in the sports industry hope that all the people who want to become the best in their field, do it the right way and not by cheating and certainly not by using steroids.