I mean, you’ll find people using PEDs in any sport, despite the risk of bans and everything. Steroid use is also rampant among bodybuilders.

There is an “obvious market”, but why do such sport leagues or federations that openly allow those drugs exist?

I can imagine that such a thing existing would create an immediate and widespread health problem with lots of people, athletes or not, using those performance enhancers and accidentally fucking themselves. But what else could be a problem?

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    the audience doesn’t want to watch them if it feels like what they’re doing is artificial or inauthentic.

    I highly doubt that’s the reason. There’s definitely an audience out there for people with chemical and surgical alterations to perform at superhuman levels.