The problem of doping in youth sports is one of the most urgent and even more acutely emphasizes the need to combat doping at all levels. Since children’s sports are the foundation of the entire sports system, the influence of doping and its distorted positive image concerning sports results acquires a very topical position. The next problem that does not cease to be relevant to this day is the problem of financing. In many countries, there is an irrational bias in the economic plan of support and development of sports. Another critical problem of sports concerns the preparation of the sports reserve. That is, it consists in distorting the perception of reality by the coaching staff and the management of organizations that train young athletes when planning their activities. The leadership and the coach set the wrong tasks, which leads to a distortion of the strategy, mistakes in planning, and an incorrect training process. The solution to the problems is for the states to become more careful about the allocation of financial resources in the field of sports. In addition, the answer lies in the correct motivation of managers and coaches so that they can set reasonable goals for athletes and help them achieve them.
The main abuses of athletes are alcohol and various drugs, and the most important is the abuse of doping: erythropoietin, anabolic steroids, diuretics, and stimulants of mental activity. The latter group includes cocaine, ecstasy, and other drugs belonging to the narcotic group. Addicted to the use of these drugs, some athletes may not only lose the ability to participate in sports but also expose themselves to the risks of overdoses and deaths. When doping is used, some athletes are deprived of their rights to participate in competitions by anti-doping committees, which negatively impacts their lives as they are deprived of all statuses and financial income. The example of the former American boxer Bob Hazelton is very indicative. He lost both legs due to abuse of pharmacology and barely survived when gangrene of the limb provoked the spread of infection.
Skill gamesmanship is the use of dubious, although technically not illegal, methods to win or gain a severe advantage in sports. The difference from cheating, in this case, is that technically the athlete does not commit deceptive actions, although the techniques they use are not completely honest. An example of the gamesmanship skill is a football game in which an athlete intentionally falls after losing during a free kick to win a penalty. Cheating includes injuring a strong athlete under the guise of accidental doping and match-fixing. Naturally, fraud should be punished and wholly excluded from the sport. This is because sports test the true physical strength of people and not their ability to deceive.
Performance-enhancing drugs have had a negative impact on athletes of all levels. This is because the anti-doping commission has deprived athletes using these drugs of the right to participate in competitions. Some athletes have received various heart and liver diseases due to using PED. The measures that are currently being developed to detect the use of doping and drugs by athletes are effective. Some athletes were excluded from participating in global competitions such as the Olympic Games precisely because the conducted testing showed the presence of prohibited drugs in the blood of participating athletes. Justification for using steroids in MLB is impossible to find since sports regulate the complete exclusion of doping, including steroids.