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Your second sentence is absolutely true despite what everybody says about PEDs. They're called performance enhancing drugs for a reason... Because they enhance your performance.
Sports equals entertainment. That's it. It's a TV show like any other. Any way it's possible to enhance the product, like fighters having bigger gas tanks, is only a benefit to the final product.
Sports leagues like the NFL understand this aspect and have special drug programs that nobody hears about when somebody gets busted the first few times. The guys that get suspended are the ones that have been caught multiple times already. There's a certain amount of times you're allowed to be put in this program before you're breaking the rules of that program... This program is how guys like Josh Gordon were even able to be allowed in the league as long as he was. That guy was on anything and everything forever, despite only being suspended twice.
Can sum up my thoughts on the matter with the quote from the book "I am America (and so can You!)"
"Athletes perform for our enjoyment. So “performance-enhancing drugs” are really enjoyment-enhancing drugs. The fact is, Americans want the best of everything. That's why Americans won't watch women's basketball. Every time I see a lady make a shot I think, "I bet a guy could've made that better." "Enhanced" athletes are the same way."