Champions are made when no1 is watching

Imagine taking a poll of all the kids in America. The question you faze them with is the infamous kindergarten query. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Automatically without even waiting for their answers you think to yourself that at least fifty percent of these children want to play a certain sport for a living. This is because at this point in their young lives they think sports is fun, well they think it’s more fun than school work. This is when one knows that the most used role models in the eyes of children are athletes. For that reason, professional sports organizations market certain “stars” doing what the community thinks is feasible with the amount of tournament pay they receive. With all this said, being a student, I’m not going to be able to interview any of the top athletes that are being investigated for illegal use of performance enhancing drugs because even some of the top reporters aren’t even able to get a quote. Therefore I have been watching interviews. Some of the interviews I watched consisted of Alex Rodriguez press conferences. My research wasn’t really enlightened because what I already knew was just reiterated upon. Athletes use performance enhancing drugs to gain an advantage. They want to out perform, break records, become famous, set records, and gain entrance into their respective hall of fames. When athletes talk about taking performance enhancing drugs, they are either one of two ways. Really sympathetic and apologetic, or just putting on a façade because they know that come a year from now most charges will be dropped and they will compete once again. Nothing of my knowledge was per say enlightened, but watching the interviews are of some sort intriguing because they force you into the shoes of the athlete. They force you to live their life and see their struggles. Does it change the fact that performance enhancing drugs are bad, not at all, but it gives you insight into a world that we all as spectators take for granted. The world where enough is never enough, where being good lasts only a matter of seconds because there is always someone training harder than you. The world where champions are made, WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING.