In most professional sports organizations, athlete contracts contain a clause which dictates a player can be fined, punished, suspended, or released if he breaks any league drug rules, or is involved in any public legal cases involving drugs. After all, much of the present and future fan base of sports is the youth, and it’s certainly bad for business when your star athletes are being arrested for drugs. Professional baseball, football, and hockey are remarkably consistent on this issue. Every year, inevitably, there are both in-league suspensions for players using illegal substances, and player suspensions for discipline of public arrests somehow related to drugs. Players might be upset about their punishments for both types of offenses, but they have to adhere to it. After all, the players’ union negotiates these points with team ownership, well ...

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The process known as gene doping is about to take the world by storm. Within a decade, there will be notable laboratory progress toward manipulating the outcome of a pregnancy with regard to characteristics of the baby. Gender, likelihood of certain diseases or defects, and other traits of the baby will be examined and selected before inception. This will allow babies to be born healthier with better statistical genetic chance for a long and vigorous life. This technology translates to the bodybuilding stage and the sports performance world as well. The same brilliant minds that have delivered undetectable steroids to the Olympic Games for decades are now working to make genetic manipulation, or gene doping, a reality. Here are a few of the techniques they are studying. Gene identification Soon, scientists will be able to determine ...

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Today’s crop of professional bodybuilders is the most amazing example of muscularity that the Earth has ever seen. Men are 260 to 320 pounds, sitting at 2 to 3% body fat. They are pushing the limits of how much muscle the frame of a human being can hold. The reason behind this new level of physique development is, of course, the advanced sports medicine technology. The use of human growth hormone, synthetic testosterone, IGF-1, and insulin has created growth way beyond that which any human being was ever supposed to be able to attain. Not only are their muscles growing, but their jaws, foreheads, elbows, hand and feet are growing too. Their internal organs are growing. The long-term effects of insulin misuse and growth hormone agromegaly have barely been scraped upon. And, bodybuilders are ...

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