So your telling me if i suck on my inhaler ill loose a stone. winner. lets get started
But back to it. there are clear advantages. some of the substance abuse i would imagine would benefit from properly run long term data that you would get from its inclusion in sport.
Now how about grafting a set of kangaroo legs onto the high jumpers. That sort of thing.
Given how fast synthetic biology is moving forward, I expect that genetic manipulation to be a "doping scandal" in the next 20-30 years in the same way that doping first emerged in the Warsaw Bloc countries in the late 70's and 80's. We'll soon look back on athletes like Ben Johnson and wonder at how naïve we were.
There are already successful therapies testing on animals that have proven to change metabolism, alter blood flow in tissue, modify pain reception, and delay sexual development (handy if you're a female gymnast for example) , and none of them would be detectable. So I reckon our chioces are; we either abandon competitive sports as a thing, or we agree to allow genetic super-people, and hope they don't die I guess.
I expect that genetic manipulation to be a “doping scandal” in the next 20-30 years in the same way that doping first emerged in the Warsaw Bloc countries in the late 70’s and 80’s.
I think I recall mutterings about this when Pog won the tdf, can't say I think it's likely yet but absolutely in the future I think there's a very good chance sport will be dominated by folks who've been given Compmound V* (tm) by their parents.
*I do hope that's what they call it.
Doping didn't first emerge in the 70's, in the eastern block, it was around a long time before that (Tommy Simpson f. ex), but the effects of that program on the people in the program should be a lesson to anyone stupid enough to think that this would be a bit of fun and a good idea.
Plenty of information on this, this is the first thing google threw up https://globalsportmatters.com/health/2019/11/07/ex-east-german-athletes-struggle-with-health-problems-due-to-the-consequences-of-ped-taking/
Tis a viable option. After all your health is only your respsonsibility. For the same reason helmets shouldn't be mandatory in sport.
