I mean, you’ll find people using PEDs in any sport, despite the risk of bans and everything. Steroid use is also rampant among bodybuilders.
There is an “obvious market”, but why do such sport leagues or federations that openly allow those drugs exist?
I can imagine that such a thing existing would create an immediate and widespread health problem with lots of people, athletes or not, using those performance enhancers and accidentally fucking themselves. But what else could be a problem?
As dumb as it sounds sports people are role models for kids.
So if a professional athlete is known for taking ped, a child will think that on order to be like them I will take ped despite the medical complications that come with those drugs.
Also, do we need more dumbasses like that Russian guy with roided up upper arms?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/worldnews/14230629/russian-popeye-life-saving-surgery-remove-rotting-fake-muscles/
That’s not steroids… that guy literally injected oil - synthol - into his muscles to make them look ridiculously large. It’s not performance enhancing in any way.