bgoldstein wrote:
I think it's ironic you mention Bjorn Daehle, but in this thread there has been no mention of Eero Mantyranta, who had a genetic condition that increased his red blood cell count. I see this as a similar situation, where there is a genetic disposition to 'enhanced performance,' but the athlete in question has taken no explicit action to engage in 'performance enhancing' activity.Robert Forstemann has been mentioned. Same kind of deal. I'm willing to let those go.
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If total equality is really what we're going for, let's all race, in the words of Pre, "to see who has more guts," and not to see who has a better genetic makeup.We're not going for "total equality," a strawman argument frequently brought up in doping threads. Taking advantage of superior genetics is a perfectly valid avenue to athletic success. We're merely trying to define a reasonable dividing line between men and women because that is a dividing line we've decided to draw for ourselves. And nature is being a biatch and not making that line easy to draw in some cases.