News Stories  What's Wrong With Drugs in Sports?  Lance
Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner, has been
stripped of his victories by the US Anti-Doping Agency for using
illicit performance-enhancing drugs. This is happening in almost
every sport and in, Ian Steadman asks, "Why don't we accept
doping will always happen and legalize it?"  As training,
coaching, nutrition and equipment have been improved, athletes
will eventually reach a "wall," where further improvement isn't
possible, and then, Steadman says, "we face the question of how
to keep sport interesting."  If using drugs to create "machine
men" is one way to do it, why not? (NOTE: Subscribers can get
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Steadman quotes neuroethicist Julian Savulescu as saying, "The
war on doping has failed. Lance Armstrong never failed a doping
test, despite being subjected to thousands. Nearly every recent
winner of the Tour de France has been implicated in doping.
About 80% of 100-meter finali