... source of further internal pressure. Financial and material rewards are major influences on athletes and sporting performance. Sport, which was once an activity to fill in leisure time, has now become a way to earn a living for some of our elite athletes. In recent times people have commented that money-making principles have begun to replace athletes' moral principles. Enormous salaries, product endorsements and potential careers outside of the sporting field are some of. the rewards available to the successful athlete. Rewards are also available to athletes at lower levels of competition and to those in amateur sport. Even at junior levels, inducements such as scholarships are a significant incentive, and can increase the pressure to achieve. The banning of the use of drugs in sport is generally justified by the dual and interrelated arguments that it is medically unacceptable because of the potential side effects and it is ethically unacceptable because it ...

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