The nexus is deeper, dirtier, and dangerous. From sports authorities to coaches to athletes to chemists, the vicious circle of doping has driven them crazy. If few seconds of glory, as sports authorities imagine, can transform a struggling, unknown athlete to a super hero in front of the world audience, what's the heck in achieving that limelight, be that sparklingly temporary in the public memory, the dispensers of athletes' destiny never shy away from confronting the the limits of human endeavour through whatever means. The charm of steroids has caught them all like a Viagra-fortified penis that drives a porn artist to an earth-shattering orgasm, which visually seems so delectable, but in reality it's all that debilitated manhood, hung phlegmatically from the abdomen in a state of disgrace.
Perhaps, that's the reason why Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic games, who sternly denounced "the intrusion of politics into sports, the increasingly venal attitude towards championship, the excessive worshipping of sport, which leads to a belief in the wrong values, chauvinism, brutality, overworking, overtraining, and doping." In that what he predicted in 1923, the recent infamous doping scandal in India and around the world has eventually corroborated to his wisdom.
Why do people in general and athletes in particular love to tread the path of short-cut to glory? Why don't they understand that a forged winning is anyway more disgraceful than losing? How long, if possible at all, they can sustain their false glory by resorting to such disdainful practice like doping? Probably, the athletes are swept away by the illusion that winning a couple of awards even by fraudulent means can make them eternal heroes in society, but that idea of being the best player in any sports event can't justify the fact that “excellence is the prerogative of a flawed notion”.
A steroid can't sustain the performance of an athlete for long. A new athlete will born one day who with the mandate of practice and determination can prove that the steroids are as temporary as the existence of a bubble, and in that split second of formation and burst, the life of a forged winner will be vanished into thin air. A society, a federation, or a nation can't survive on the false notion of fragile glory, which in the next moment strips off the victory by the revelation of truth.
One should understand that sports are not confined to the realm of athletic excellence and the winning of trophies and medals, rather they are integral part of human journey towards social excellence. And in every human excellence there is no place for unethical practices that mar the greatness of sporting spirit. Whether one wins or not the spirit of a sportsperson should not be riddled with the evils of human greed. And certainly a dangerous proposition like doping is but the manifestation of a sick mentality, not the valour of a true sportsperson.
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