The professional athlete has an obligation to his fans in a similar way. Crowds are much larger at men s professional basketball games that at women s. Advocates of the women s game claim it can be just as exciting as men s basketball, given its own terms. This claim is easily seen to be disingenuous when you realized the same can be said for junior high school basketball. Nobody is advocating that we should pay lots of money to watch those kids play.
Steroids improve the level of performance.
Ben Johnson ran faster and Bulgarian weightlifters lift more thanks to steroids. That is good for sport, not bad. Let sport be recognized for what it is professional entertainment. For all the money they have to lay out, fans are entitled to the best possible performances. Recently a swimmer in the Olympics took about two minutes to swim 100 meters.