Athletic superstars, in all sports, are getting bigger and
bigger. And if they take drugs to increase their muscle size
and strength, it will may become impossible to catch them at
it in
the future. A physician who recommended 25 years ago that
Olympic athletes be tested for blood doping now says it will
be almost impossible to catch cheaters at this summer's
Olympics.
Dr. Tapio Videman says, "My understanding is that there is no
way to detect in the human body the newer gene-technology
products. Why is this not brought up? Most of the athletes
know it. Either we change the methods of testing for this
substance or give up testing completely. I never thought I
would change my views so much."
While watching swimmers line up during the 2008 Olympic
Games in Beijing, former Olympic swimmer and NBC Sports
commentator Rowdy Gaines remarked that swimmers keep
getting bigger, with the shortest one in the current race
towering over the average spectator. What he didn't know
was that a new theory has indeed showed that not only have
Olympic swimmers and sprinters gotten bigger and faster over
the past 100 years, but they have grown at a much faster
rate than the normal population. While the average human
has gained about 1.9 inches in height since 1900, the fastest
swimmers have grown 4.5 inches and the swiftest runners
have grown 6.4 inches.
Researcher Jordan Charles collected the heights and weights
of the fastest swimmers (100 meters) and sprinters (100
meters) for world record winners since 1900. He then
correlated the size growth of these athletes with their
winning times. He says, "The trends revealed by our analysis
suggest that speed records will continue to be dominated by
heavier and taller athletes."
Is this due to doping? We soon won't be able to tell.
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