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Tony Thompson, a boxer, claims that anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs should be legalized in boxing. The sportsman considers that anti-doping laws and gun laws are similar. Who keeps gun laws? Just good guys do it. As a result, good guys are at a disadvantage. Thus, the similar situation is related to anti-doping laws. Just honest athletes don’t administer anabolic steroids and/or other doping products. So, they fight with those that have increased their performance with the help of steroids and other related medicines.
It is stated that steroids are prohibited in sports because they are dangerous. What would you claim about boxing in itself? Is boxing safe? The answer is obvious.
But it is also claimed that it is necessary to prohibit steroids and other related drugs in order to make boxing safer. Steroids and other doping products increase performance. The more increased performance is, the more dangerous matches are. However it is true, would you ban anything that promotes performance of boxers? Thus, you prohibit steroids because they enhance performance. Then prohibit workouts as well since they increase performance too! Thus, you will decrease performance while reducing possible risks. What do you think about this condition?
The boxer Tony Thompson also adds that detection tests are not efficacious at all. While numerous sportspersons use forbidden medicines, only some of them are caught and sentenced to suspensions. Thus, dopers have unfair advantage over those that obey anti-doping rules. Where is fairness? Where is logic?
Undoubtedly, statements expressed by Tony Thompson are reasonable. Anti-doping rules make fights more unfair. Furthermore, the ban of doping doesn’t make matches safer. Many boxers continue to use steroids and/or other banned medicines without being caught. They continue to fight and succeed with the help of doping, while honest guys are at a disadvantage because they keep anti-doping laws.
Thus, if doping is legalized in boxing, fights will be fairer. Of course, they will remain unsafe. But they will be at least honest.
The boxer Tony Thompson has been harshly criticized for his statements pro legalization of doping in boxing.