I know, this could hurt some of you.
Olympic games are started, plenty of records have been scored (especially in the swimming pool) and most of the discussions I have now with people are about doping and “technologization” of performance.
Should we enjoy a world record or should we blame it?
please read this article from NYT, entitled “Let the Games Be Doped”.
so you’ll maybe get a new point of view about it. [But a change of reference frame doesn't necessarily mean different conclusions... ]
a quote from this article:
“If athletes didn’t have to cheat to win, they and society would be better off, says Bengt Kayser, the director of a sports medicine institute at the University of Geneva. In a 2005 article in The Lancet, he and two bioethicists argued that legalizing doping would “encourage more sensible, informed use of drugs in amateur sport, leading to an overall decline in the rate of health problems associated with doping.”
I am ready for a profitable discussion,
AZ
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Cheers! Sandra. R.
Riccardo says:
August 13th, 2008 at 09:59
I think such a proposal means to surrender to the interests of pharmaceutical companies. There is no reason to stop fighting against doping. I wonder how can somebody say that steroids do not cause health problems. See this:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/11/sexchange.athlete/index.html
Doping is unfair and harmful. The next step will be genetic doping. If you allow it, you will see swimmers with 4 arms.
I don´t blame a new record, until doping is proved. But suspicion remains when you see the enormous bodies of very young swimmers.
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alexziller says:
August 13th, 2008 at 15:14
the video is really shocking! Nevertheless the concept of liberalization for me is fine as long as athlets would be forced to watch such videos and free doping will be limited to substances which don’t hurt human body on the short and long term.. but it sounds utopic at the moment, I know..
also I link a previous Erborista’s comment on the same subject which I found quite accurate (in italian):
http://www.tecnopolis.eu/blog/2008/06/se-questo-e-un-uomo/#comment-35
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