Re:Drug cheats in sport could benefit 'for decades', scienti...
by userbinator on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @09:10AM
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The definition of what is a "human body enhancement drug" is itself interesting: some are what people would obviously consider to be drugs, like steroids; and at the other end, the substances found in regular foods such as vitamins would not be, but what about dietary supplements and the various other types of "food optimisation" that people do? I'd say they certainly have an effect on performance too, so could they be considered a form of unfair advantage? This sort of reasoning leads to the conclusion that to eliminate all these factors the athletes' diets should be strictly regulated. Then you still have (as this article shows) their history and probably other factors down to how much they've trained, the climate they're in, etc... it's really quite a subtle issue to define what is "fair" in sports.
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Re:Drug cheats in sport could benefit 'for decades', scienti...
by chongli on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @10:17AM
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Sports have never been fair and never will be. Why? Because fairness has no rigorous definition. It is one of those words like justice or intelligence; everybody has their own idea of what it means to be fair. No matter what sort of authority we create there will always be people who reject its legitimacy.