evil_roy
02-28-2003, 02:21 AM
With breakthroughs in the cloning and surgical improvement areas pressure will mount to relax the current tough stance on drugs in sport.
The use of chemicals to boost performance/overcome injury and to mask these agents seems to be an unstoppable force. With pending breakthroughs in related bio-medical science the application of steroids, growth hormones and other currently banned substances will pale into insignificance.
Whilst it is against the rules and therefore deemed cheating, I can see no real reason to ban the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport. An athlete can have an operation to overcome injury, can have pins inserted/bone spurs removed, artifical ligaments installed - but cannot take steroids to assist performance or healing.
Other medical procedures will be developed that will be undetectable and the tide will turn.
Why should the rules ban Ben Johnson when every other runner had scientific diets, steel spikes on their feet and wind-cheating bodysuits. The current approach is confusing and hypocritical. I want to see human performance at it's peak using all of the available technology.
The use of chemicals to boost performance/overcome injury and to mask these agents seems to be an unstoppable force. With pending breakthroughs in related bio-medical science the application of steroids, growth hormones and other currently banned substances will pale into insignificance.
Whilst it is against the rules and therefore deemed cheating, I can see no real reason to ban the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport. An athlete can have an operation to overcome injury, can have pins inserted/bone spurs removed, artifical ligaments installed - but cannot take steroids to assist performance or healing.
Other medical procedures will be developed that will be undetectable and the tide will turn.
Why should the rules ban Ben Johnson when every other runner had scientific diets, steel spikes on their feet and wind-cheating bodysuits. The current approach is confusing and hypocritical. I want to see human performance at it's peak using all of the available technology.