Final Performance task: “Will Genetics Destroy Sports?”
The perfection of oneself has been in the minds of athletes, their trainers, and their coaches. This thought has created a very challenging situation to many. In many aspects, people that train for competitive sports, or even just school teams; there is a great unhappiness about their natural form. They constantly look to enhance their performance, agility and expanding their horizons on what they are already capable of. The question that scientists, coaches and other professional persons are faced with is: “Will Genetics Destroy Sports?” the answer lies within the athletes themselves, in their minds, in their bodies, and in their spirits. Only they choose to do this to themselves, and only they are risking their own well being for the nature of the sport. So, in turn, the scientific engineering of gene therapy has a massive impact on sports. The fun that used to come from the sport has been destroyed by the competitiveness of its players and the unhappiness to the great they already are. The unnaturalness of gene doping has extended itself to much more than just enhancing the user’s performance and physical capability, but to destroying the love of the sport to pure competition, as well as to change the way sports have been viewed. Soon, athletes with be able to change the limits of the sport whether the world likes it or not. Will the world be ready? Or better yet, will the sport be ready?
Further research has been done on gene doping. One major scientist is H. Lee Sweeney. He has explained the effects of gene doping and has tested on rats, mice and soon to be dogs. “Gene therapy is risky, in some experiments, the consequences happen to be death.” – Sweeney. As seen in past experiences, death can be the end of the experiment. Gene doping is defined as "the non-therapeutic use of cells, genes, genetic elements, or of the modulation of gene expression, having the capacity to improve athletic...