What is “fair” in this case? Those kids are going to excel at sports, because they have an inflated amount of energy and endurance – and one of the psychological effects (indeed, the reason they apply those drugs) is that you have increased concentration, even for repetitive and boring tasks. Adolescence is when your muscles will most develop – the end result being that you find a high incidence of the best athletes also being on drugs.

Can you take the kids off the drugs? Is that fair to them, and the corresponding lack of performance? Is it ever fair to cap someone’s performance either by applying or withholding a fetter or tool? Unfortunately, this does mean that as time goes on and as we understand the human body better, and are better able to modify it, these things are only going to happen more. It’s not the same game, and never will be.

And I say this coming from the fact that I think its stupid that steroids are illegal, which I do, and could throw you a slew of websites by leading scientists who disprove many of the notions the law and the media have about steroids since they got their science based on a 1980’s study that was discredited 4 years later. But at the same time feel that athletes should achieve their goals without them or any performance enhancing drug, the whole point is they are supposed to be supermen from the getgo.