Hello All,
Interesting article - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/31/AR2007073101997.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Excerpt: Techno-Athletes Change The Definition of Natural
By Joel Garreau
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 1, 2007; Page C01
Some day soon – maybe today – we’re going to have to admit it.
We have a new norm in sports. Athletes routinely are enhanced.
Many of their achievements are as dependent on technology as they are on talent, dedication and spirit. The way their competitions are set up, they have little choice.
(By Ellen Schuster – Getty Images)
The old rules are increasingly untenable.
Especially the one that goes: Enhancement is indistinguishable from cheating.
This is not just about Barry Bonds, who may break the all-time home-run record this week. Nor is it just about the Tour de France and its ejected riders.
It’s about Tiger Woods’s laser surgery to improve his eyesight. It’s also about even the legitimate Olympians. The exotic training and nutrition and astonishing genetic endowments of some render them scarcely recognizable as the same kind of human you see on the Metro.
Is it inevitable that there soon will be two kinds of leagues in baseball, basketball or football – the Naturals and the Enhanced?
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What do you think?
Cheers,
Neal