In all honesty if an athelete is not allowed to take performance enhancing drugs, then why are they allowed to take supplements? And why are their performances allowed to be enhanced by other means (such as scientifically?)
Well one Doctor (Timothy Noakes) argues that performance enhancing drugs has a much greater affect than any kind of equipment, supplement or science.
"[W]hen used by fully trained, elite athletes, [performance-enhancing] drugs can improve performance to a much greater extent than any combination of the most intensive, sophisticated, and costly nonpharmaceutical interventions known to modern sports science."
However Greg Skidmore and Kenan Malik makes points that ring true with me, for example Skidmore uses the example of Tiger Woods (everyones favourite golfer at the moment) who has LASIK laser eye surgery making his eyes see 5 feet further than the average human eye.. surely now that is performance enhancing is it not? And Malik usesone example of the England Rugby team, he says that we used body-hugging shirts in the 2003 world cup (which we did), consequently making it harder to hold on and tackle our players... again what makes this 'not' perfomance enhancing and how is that allowed?
In my Opinion we should have a 'special' Perfomance Enhanced Olympics.. that would make for incredible watching if you ask me.
So in all honesty are these atheletes actually 'Being Bad'? :)
For the link on the ethical argument of the Performance enhancing drug click HERE.
Also Click HERE for a video on Dwain Chambers talking about using perfomance enhancing drugs.
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