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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. Voluntary slavery by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Stop this crazyness! No amount of olimpic gold medals worth loosing freedom. Stop offering being slave in order to be eligible to collect some reward.
    Why are people so eager to go back to voluntary slavery?
    Slavery is forbidden for good. Stop dreaming about it.

  2. I don't see a problem here. by foxtrot · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If the World Federation of Whatever begins to require GPS on athletes competing in their events, then if you wish to compete in a World Federaton of Whatever sanctioned event, you submit to the GPS.

    If sufficient numbers of athletes consider this to be evil and rude, that's no problem, either, as there will soon be an International Federation of Whatever to compete with the World Federation of Whatever to make a few Euros off those athletes, as well.

    That said, it seems like it'd be easier to simply do drug testing...