Sunday, October 16, 2011

Bigger, Stronger, Faster

Steroid use in today's sports has become a huge problem, with more and more athletes faltering under the pressure and giving in to steroid use. In the Bigger, Stronger, Faster poster many famous athletes are shown without revealing their faces, but showing their uncharacteristically huge muscles. These athletes have become icons in their sports, but now that the public has finally found out that these athletes have used steroids they are losing their public appeal. These steroid using famous athletes are putting pressure on young athletes to become big and strong, convincing them to also use steroids to get attention from colleges or even major league sports teams. The steroid usage was at an all time high in the nineteen eighties when many olympic athletes were doping up along with many baseball and football players. Also steroid  use became a huge problem with distance athletes, such as cross country skiers-runners, triathletes, and many swimmers and cyclist. The poster depicts how this craze is really taking off in the United States, because of the American flag in the background. These drugs were made for people that actually needed the boost in muscle growth like aids patients and people who suffer from muscular dystrophy. Now these athletes have found ways to abuse them and become super humans, and there needs to be a stop put to this.
                                   -Cody

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