In bodybuilding "natural" tends to mean you can pass a drug test at the competition. Same with powerlifting.
But ideas of what is "clean" and what is not is going to be severely changed in coming decades. With medical changes in the next 100 years we may find that "natural" athletes are smaller, weaker and slower than regular folk who are not even athletes. Will anyone watch a "clean" SP competition if there are a dozen guys at their local gym who could throw farther if the bother to pick up a shot? I wonder what will happen the first time an amputee athlete runs faster than the best "able-bodied" athlete? Maybe this is ridiculously far-fetched and these days will never come, but one thing is for certain the greater involvement of medical/technological change in daily life in the future will certainly radically alter sport and how we think about it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kurt Bray Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 5:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: major philosphy difference for the sport >Is there no game for the CLEANIES to play professionally? Maybe do it like the body builders do: split it into two separate sports. Some body builders compete in the "natural" tournaments and others in the no-holds-barred events. Maybe track should consider something like that so that we could see what actual athletes are capable of and also see what formerly-human dope freaks accompanied by their pharmaceutical pit crews are capable of. Both contests could be appreciated for their similar events but also for their ultimately different merits and philosophies. Kurt Bray _________________________________________________________________ Try MSN Messenger 6.0 with integrated webcam functionality! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_webcam
