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Genetically-Engineered Super-Athletes?
Karma 50 writes: "The BBC News is reporting that
genetically modified "super-athletes" may be competing as soon as the 2012 Olympic games. A conference in London warns that gene therapies for diseases such as Cystic Fibrosis may be used by athletes to enhance performance. So far, this is undetectable. So we're not immediately facing the prospect of watching athletes bred especially for their performance but, with our desire to win at all costs, this too can't be far off."
It's goes back further then that. Does everyone already forget what happened in East Germany? Athletes were basically adopted by the government when they were teens and given steroids and various other performance enhancing drugs without being told what they are. They were groomed for Olympic competition, like cattle. Many of these athletes were given so many drugs that they now have serious health problems. I laughed when I read the comment "So we're not immediately facing the prospect of watching athletes bred especially for their performance" because it's already happened.