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Supernatural – Are performance-enhancing drugs the next step in human evolution in sport?

Something the world has taught me in my short time as an adolescent is that bigger is always better. Not only can this be identified in everyday social situations, but it can unfortunately also be found in today’s sporting landscape. Bigger athletes. Faster athletes. Heavier weights. The introduction of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs has given team coaches and athletes to push their bodies past the limit of their capabilities and into a field of performance that can only be defined as supernatural. Now for the majority of sport governing bodies, the use of performance-enhancing drugs is strictly illegal and there are usually harsh penalties for athletes who are caught whilst using them. But with the interest in live sport fading and athletes beginning to reach the fringes of what is physiologically possible, do the use of performance-enhancing drugs have a place in saving sports' future?     My first reaction was no. Of course not. Athletes are some of...