Odd suggestion for solving the performance-enhancing drugs problem in sports.

Isn't he already in it?

 

I heard Don Bragg on Rick Barry's old show on KNBR talking about a similar thing.
It's easy to write such ideas off as crack-pot, but it's an interesting line of thinking.
Bragg's point was that improving technology is constantly changing sports. When he won his gold medal in 1960, vaulters used stiff poles. Now vaulters use high-tech flex poles. To the average person looking at the records, it seems like it's all the same, but the different eras are actually vastly different because of the technology. Despite that difference, the records still count.
Bragg said maybe it's time to accept performance-enhancing drugs as part of the technological advancement of sports. Get the drugs controlled, regulated and administered by team physicians.

 

I know in powerlifting there are federations that drug-test and there are federations that don't.
I think bodybuilding is the same.
Of course, most people don't care about either sport.

 

Re: Odd suggestion for solving the performance-enhancing drugs problem in sports

now wait just a darn minute, are you trying to say bodybuilders use drugs?

 

Nah.

 

Sure... people outside the Bay Area need competition too...