The "Olympics on Steroids" have filed what could be a landmark lawsuit for athletes' rights to compete in unlicensed events, even those encouraging the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
This is a very difficult subject to think about, it seems. The room for exploitation, wrong doing, and young athletes being coerced into making dangerous long term decisions to seek short term gain ... on the other hand one could argue that epigenetic and environmental differences already act as sorts of enhancements... and that we have admitedly created better cleats, better trainign programs, better nutrition programs... and where does one draw lines ?
This is a very difficult subject to think about, it seems. The room for exploitation, wrong doing, and young athletes being coerced into making dangerous long term decisions to seek short term gain ... on the other hand one could argue that epigenetic and environmental differences already act as sorts of enhancements... and that we have admitedly created better cleats, better trainign programs, better nutrition programs... and where does one draw lines ?