Darc Requiem on 31 August 2007
| Kytiara said: It all stems from the fact that society in general feel that athletes as a group should be improving year after year: wrestlers need to look more buff than the last generation of wrestlers; baseball players need to hit more home runs per season than the last generation; football players need to throw further, run faster, tackle harder; swimmers need to swim those laps faster; etc.... In reality, sport records shouldn't be broken on a consistent basis. There's only so far humans can go naturally, and most of those limits were reached years and years ago. The only way to become the newest record holder is to use technology to do what nature can't...and I find that disturbing. Not all sports use drugs either, for example gymnastics involves getting smaller and lighter athletes, until you have 14 year olds that are barely eating leading the pack... As someone above said, its sad. Competition is healthy, but not when taken to such extremes that the competition itself is forgotten in the quest to become the next winner. |
Kytiara some of what you say has merit but there is a whole in your logic when it comes to be people getting bigger, faster, and stronger. Humans have been getting bigger, faster, stronger, etc. before that advent of steroids. The average person from 100 years ago was taller, stronger, and faster than the average person frorm 500 years ago.
