Destroyed Review Blog 1

Joseph Laungayan

Melinda Schroeder

ENGL&101 - 2400

Destroyed Review Blog 1

            The article Destroyed, by Peter F. Martin, is about the use of performance enhancing drugs within professional sports. The author feels that using performance enhancing drugs or any “Extra human objects” (Martin) ruins the purity of the sport. He uses examples from the ancient Olympians to support his views against artificial enhancers.

            Paragraph ten of Destroyed talks about how performance enhancers have ruined not only the sport that were passed down from the Greeks, but also the physical wellbeing of the athletes themselves. 

            Martin states that fans of athletes have made a sport out of guessing who is using drugs to enhance their performance and who is not because the use of these drugs has crept into every sport.  I thought that this statement was funny and sad at the same time.  One because it is so ridiculous that people bet on the fate of a player and two because it is sad that fans have lost their faith in their athletic heroes.  To me this just shows how physical enhancers have become another part of sports as we know it today.  It is conceivable that one day it will become the norm for every athlete to enhance themselves physically in one way or another.  Besides the lasting effects on the health of the athletes themselves, I personally find nothing wrong with wanting to enhance yourself to be the best you can.  However, everyone should have an equal opportunity to enhance themselves.