> If you allow doping, that means doping becomes mandatory to participate at any high level. Amateur levels will be messed up as well Today in order to get to

> If you allow doping, that means doping becomes mandatory to participate at any high level. Amateur levels will be messed up as well Today in order to get to pro level you need a staff, special nutrition, etc. This is a commercial investment. It starts at amateur level (for those who want to go pro) What we allow today is not far from doping - but we still pretend to look for "forbidden" substances because we arbitrarily said that they were bad. Allowing doping would level the game: today there is so much research on how to hide the "unorthodox" substances players use and this is a cat and mouse game. Once you say "go for it" at least there will be no cheating in this area. The only thing that bothers me is that this will quickly hit children who are not aware of the consequences. My wife was a European level champion in the junior league and when she was offered to join the national team, she refused because this would mean abandoning studies and get into a really unhealthy mode of life. She was lucky to have reasonable parents and friends - not everyone was that lucky and the ones who failed failed really really hard.