Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play.

Note: I know very little about sports and being on a sports team, so please point out anything that doesn’t make sense.

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    Just make an “open class” where any identification, body mods, and performance enhancing drugs are unregulated. The best athletes that science can create.

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      It sounds fun at first but imagine the amount of heart attacks and other horrible Mengele level fuckups.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Ah yes, the Enhanced Games brought to you be Peter Theil and a dozen of the worst tech bros you haven’t heard of yet.

      Part of the problem is that pro sports is already full of illicit doping. Another big part of the problem is that athletic exceptionalism is as much about winning the genetic lottery, getting lucky with no injuries at the peak of your career, and having the luxury of sponsorship/rich parents at a very age as it is doing lots of drugs.

      The only real benefit you get out of an Enhanced Games exhibition is to sell dipshit frat bros the same promise Wheaties and Nike and GMC have been selling for decades - use our brand of steroid and you’ll be a world champion, too. And frankly, that market is already kinda flooded.

      • voluble@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        I take your anti-corporate point. However, I believe pro-doping would totally work if it was a gladiatorial bloodbath decathalon within the olympics itself. And if you get caught doping in the non-doping sports, you’re forced to compete in the decathalon with the juiced up killers. Jousting, Barenuckle boxing, Pride rules MMA, Hell in a Cell, no rules water polo, shit like that.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          if you get caught doping in the non-doping sports, you’re forced to compete in the decathalon with the juiced up killers

          I’m listening…

    • Welt@lazysoci.alEnglish
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      5 months ago

      That has always been an excellent idea. Russia, China and the US&A - then maybe some weird shit comes out of India or Korea or somewhere, that would be nifty