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Swedish Athletes Back GPS Implants to Combat Drug Use

Posted by samzenpus on from the i-can't-be-trusted-with-my-freedoms-please-take-them dept.

paulraps writes "Swedish athletes Carolina Klüft and Stefan Holm have proposed a radical technological measure to stop top level competitors from taking performance-enhancing drugs. Klüft and Holm, reigning Olympic champions in the heptathlon and high-jump events, argue that competitors at the highest level should either have computer chips implanted into their skin or GPS transmitters attached to their training bags so that the authorities can keep tabs on them at all times."

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  1. Why stop 'em? by Wansu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why not create a "modified division" for those who take performance enhancing substances?

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    1. Re:Why stop 'em? by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Because in some countries, the athlets wouldn't take them willingly. They're simply "convinced" that it's better for their health. Or that of their loved ones.

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  2. Things will change. by PHAEDRU5 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A few years out we're going to be watching athletic events that *highlight* the mods. ("Fred Bloggs is using corpuscles engineered at Georgia Tech that guarantee his ability to sprint for 15 minutes without having to take a breath.")

    This whole bias against tech augmentation is getting me down. The sooner we embrace it, and the more we embrace it, the longer we'll live, and with higher quality of life.

    Hell, we ought to be giving awards to people who volunteer to test exotic human enhancement technologies right now.

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    1. Re:Things will change. by paleo2002 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      This brings up a number of new problems:

      1) Do we mix the cyborgs, mutants, and chemically-enhanced athletes together or have separate leagues?

      2) Will there be a "research capital cap"?

      3) If a player's arm lands in the stands, does someone get to keep it?