Alex Schwazer

Gold medal-winning race walker Alex Schwazer was the first walker to come in at the London Olympics after 3 hours and 39 minutes. Shortly after that he was found using drugs to enhance his performance and be faster. When he was found out he was band from the Olympics. After this incident he said he was proud, because if he was not found out he would have kept using drugs.

Reflection: this is a horrible thing that a great athlete like Schwazer would stoop to performance enhancing drugs just to keep his medal title. I think that people that use performance enhancing drugs are very low and horrible people. However Schwazer did the correct thing and did not deny the fact that he used them. He stepped up and told the truth and was happy. Happy at the fact that he did not have to hold the weight of knowing he did not really achieve his goal.