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Performance enhancing drugs in the international circuit are currently banned by the International Olympic Committee who try to prevent the use of them in competitive and recreational sport. However, not all athletes are tested for taking high performance enhancing drugs and many athletes feel extremely unhappy, confused and disadvantaged due to this. I believe that drugs should continue to be banned because it helps enforce fair competition, protect the health of the athletes and will continue to have a positive effect on Australian society and world sports. In this essay, I will justify why performance-enhancing drugs should continue to be banned in sport because of their negative influences, and also I will talk about the consequences of their illegal use to the athlete and world competition within the sporting fraternity. Performance-enhancing drugs are banned in sport to ensure a fair competition to all athletes. It wouldn’t be fair if an athlete who had worked extremely hard to reach his natural performance and was then cheated on by a competitor who was diagnosed later as using drugs to enhance his sporting ability. Imagine coming in second place to a drugged enhanced athlete, who stole the glory from you