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• Performance Enhancement

• through Biotechnology

• Has
  

• No Place
  

• in Sports
  

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The debate over athletes’ use of performance-enhancing
substances is getting more complicated as biotechnologies such
as gene therapy become a reality. The availability of these new
methods of boosting performance will force us to decide what we
value most in sports—displays of physical excellence developed
through hard work or victory at all costs. For centuries, spectators
and athletes have cherished the tradition of fairness in sports.
While sports competition is, of course, largely about winning, it is
also about the means by which a player or team wins. Athletes who
use any type of biotechnology give themselves an unfair advantage
and disrupt the sense of fair play, and they should be banned from
competition.

The main idea of the paragraph is....

• Athletes who use any type of biotechnology give themselves an unfair advantage and disrupt the sense of fair play, and they should be banned from competition.
• Biotechnologies like gene therapy have no impact on the fairness of sports competitions.
• Fair play in sports is not as important as achieving victory by any means necessary.
• The use of gene therapy in sports is a positive development that should be encouraged.
• Athletes who use biotechnology are setting a new standard for excellence in sports.

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The International
Olympic Committee’s World Anti-Doping Agency has become so
alarmed about the possible effects of new gene technology on
athletic competition that it has banned the use of gene therapies
and urged researchers to devise a test for detecting genetic
modification.

Which statement is true based on the text...

• The World Anti-Doping Agency has advised athletes to undergo genetic modification.
• The World Anti-Doping Agency has banned the use of gene therapies and urged researchers to devise a test for detecting genetic modification.
• The World Anti-Doping Agency has banned the use of traditional medications in athletic competition.
• The World Anti-Doping Agency has not expressed any concerns about gene technology.
• The World Anti-Doping Agency encourages the use of gene therapies in athletic competition.

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• Some bioethicists argue that this next wave of performance
  enhancement is an acceptable and unavoidable feature of
  competition
  

• An athlete achieves what he or
  she achieves through all sorts of means—technology, sponsorship,
  support and so on” (qtd. in Rudebeck)
  

• Miah, in fact, sees athletes’
  imminent turn to genetic modification as “merely a continuation
  of the way sport works; it allows us to create more extraordinary
  performances” (Rudebeck)
  

• Miah’s approval of “extraordinary
  performances” as the goal of competition reflects our culture’s
  tendency to demand and reward new heights of athletic
  achievement
  

• The problem is that achievement nowadays
  increasingly results from biological and high-tech intervention
  rather than strictly from hard work
  

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for pole vaulting, have made it possible for athletes to

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achievements ​

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a generation ​

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aerodynamic bicycles

fiberglass poles

record

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wooden poles

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unpredictable

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Athletes who use medical technology
to alter their bodies can bypass the hard work of training by
taking on the powers of a machine. If they set new records this
way, we lose the opportunity to witness sports as a spectacle of
human effort and are left marveling at scientific advances, which
have little relation to the athletic tradition of fair play.

What seems to be unfair about medical technology used for athletes?

• It bypasses the hard work of training and goes against the athletic tradition of fair play.
• It encourages athletes to push their limits.
• It promotes fair competition among athletes.
• It enhances the entertainment value of sports.
• It actually does not concern fairness or whatsoever

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has long defined athletic competition.
Sports ​

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on equal conditions to ensure fair play, from regulations
that demand similar equipment to referees who even-handedly

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, competitors and spectators alike
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of a sound basis of comparison on which to judge
athletic ​

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and accomplishment

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tradition

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violated

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effort

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upheld

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If we let athletes ​

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their bodies through biotechnology, we
might as well ​

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with the human element altogether. Instead
of watching the 100-meter dash to see who the fastest runner in

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motorcycles and race ​

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the finish line. The absurdity of such an
example, however, points to the damage that we will do to sports if

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these therapies

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alter

dispense

mount

across

allow

inject

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install