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A comment on Ask HN: Should professional gamers be screened for performance enhancing drugs?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Should professional gamers be screened for perfor... by fiftyacorn on Monday February 05, 2018 @05:00AM (#16307798)
The problem is people respond differently to doping - and some people are hyper-responders

An example being Lance Armstrong was considered a hyper-responder to his doping, and it put him at unfair advantage.

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Re:Ask HN: Should professional gamers be screened for perfor... by dsacco on Monday February 05, 2018 @07:58AM (#16308469)
How is being a hyper-responder meaningfully different from other genetic advantages that make a sport intrinsically unfair, like height?
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