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It's simple, have two leagues. 1. Human performance only - no drugs, no implants, no performance boosts. 2. Unlimited league. Take all the drugs you want, whe
by daotoad 9y ago
It's simple, have two leagues.
1. Human performance only - no drugs, no implants, no performance boosts.
2. Unlimited league. Take all the drugs you want, when we have them, install new muscles, cybernetic implants, whatever. Go wild.
This way, the real purists, who want to push the envelope of human capability get to do so without having to compete with dopers.
AND
High dollar/prestige sports will fund new and interesting areas of biomedical research. It will be like indy car racing for human bodies.
- lossolo 9y agoThis doesn't work like that. You will have dopers in first (clean) league, because there will be all the fame, prestige and money. Unlimited league would be marginal and no one would promote drug users.
- daotoad 9y agoWhile it is probable that some will dope in the clean league, a simple matter of instituting lifetime bans and reclassifying any and all records held by an athlete would put a strong disincentive. As to your unsupported statement that all the fame and prestige will be associated with the clean league, that is a matter of marketing. If there wasn't a market for doped up, super-humans athletes professional sports would be very different. Look at WWE, it's not even really a sport, but it takes in half a billion dollars a year on the promise of watching steroid guzzling guys throw each other around. For many people the problem with PED is the dishonesty, the unfair advantage it gives a cheat. But when the stigma of cheating is lifted, all that changes. A more likely outcome is that fans of some sports would shun PED and unlimited league events, others would see it as a natural extension of their attitudes about competition. https://www.wired.com/2012/09/sports-and-doping/ https://www.wired.com/2012/09/sports-and-doping/