Future Issues In Sports

While Congress and the sports world are both busy condemning the use of steroids as "cheating," here's something to consider. Golfer Tiger Woods and other athletes have already artificially enhanced their natural abilities "artificially" with Lasik eye surgery improving their vision to 20/15 or 20/10. More ominously, some are predicting that the time will soon come when perfectly healthy baseball pitchers and other athletes choose so-called "Tommy John surgery" which until now is performed only to repair ruptured arm ligaments, but can make an elbow even stronger than it naturally was, allowing pitchers to achieve higher velocity than ever. Other predicted enhancements include the removal, re-engineering, and re-insertion of leg, arm and shoulder muscle cells to add strength. (Wired Magazine)