Recently, after the Hangzhou Asian Games, what has attracted widespread attention is that the doping test of naturalized player Brown Lee of the Philippine basketball team failed. The player, who has shown excellent performances on the field, has been linked to doping. This makes us have to think, why do so many elite athletes choose to embark on this "road of violations"?
Doping allows athletes to improve their performance in a short period of time, but at the expense of sportsmanship. It allows athletes to concentrate more, stabilize their emotions and even control their small muscles. But such "improvement" is actually based on the harm to one's own body.
The essence of sports competition is fair play, but when doping intervenes, that fairness is broken. This is not only disrespectful to the opponent, but also a deception of the audience. At the Hangzhou Asian Games, not only Brown Lee, but also many athletes fell off the doping test, from cycling to boxing to athletics. This phenomenon makes us question sports competition: the real winner is skill, effort, or doping?
Looking back at history, world football superstar Maradona has also been banned for doping. Sun Yang, the star of Chinese swimming, is even more controversial because of the doping issue. In basketball, whether it is OJ Mayo and Wilson Chandler of the NBA, or Tao Hanlin and Sun Jie of the CBA, there are records of doping violations.
In the face of this phenomenon, we cannot simply blame it on the moral decay of athletes. We should think about why so many athletes are willing to take risks for a momentary victory. Are we so crazy about our pursuit of victory that athletes will stop at nothing to win?