Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Sweedish Athletes should have GPS chips implanted under their skin to detour them from taking PEDs - So says Swedish athletes Klüft and Holm

I saw this first on Slashdot.org and had to post it. This from The Local: Sweeden's News in the English Language: "... Swedish athletes Carolina Klüft and Stefan Holm; (World class heptathletes), have caused a stir on the home front by proposing radical measures to ensure that top level competitors refrain from taking performance-enhancing drugs.

"... Competitors at the highest level should either have computer chips implanted into their skin or GPS transmitters attached to their training bags to help keep track of their movements at all times. ..." [Link]

It's a radical idea, I don't think it would work since you can dope just about anywhere but I appreciate their enthusiasm. The only way to prevent doping is to remove all possible incentives to dope. That would entail a sport that issued no awards, no prize money or salary, no national recognition, no record books, and you had to compete anonymously. I suspect the only people that would show up to compete would be those that truly loved the game. I would say that masters swimming is about half way there.

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