Here's a comment: we need doping leagues. There should be athletes doped up on 10 different steroids looking like Arnie in the '80s.
[1] maybe a bit less so recently, and I definitely approve of the safety-related bans such as the supertuck
Abuse in sports is a terrible ill. I think you're right to highlight that this is a potential vector for it, but I feel like it's a "people problem" and not a "things problem".
> Backed by the world’s top venture capitalists, the Enhanced Games are the Olympics of the future.
> When 44% of athletes already use performance enhancements, it is time to safely celebrate science.
> It’s time to pay athletes instead of bureaucrats, and demonstrate what the human body is truly capable of.
> Sport is safer without drug testing.
That seems improbable at best and requires extraordinary proof to accept as fact.
With strong guardrails maybe, without them contests devolve toward maximal enhanced performance just shy of that which kills or disables.
Much like horse racing when stewards turn a blind eye.