The cat and mouse game played by top athletes and their trainers and the drug-sniffing laboratories who test to guard against such use/abuse will continue. With the rapid advances in gene therapy and drug development, I think the drug police are fighting a losing battle. Drugs will become harder, if not impossible, to detect.
Where does that leave sports and the athletes? I think the time will come when performance enhancing drugs will win this battle. Then what have we got? Freaks and superhumans? It's a short step from that scenario to human cloning, if we allow it, to produce super-athletes. Will competitive 'sports' then become just one freaky element of the entertainment business?
Not a bright prospect.
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