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Depends, I think. Nate Send a noteboard - 29/01/2013 08:48:45 PM
Depends on how much you think injuries are directly related to how an athlete plays the game compared to how much you think injuries are random.

If an athlete plays like hell in a handbasket and does well because of that, then injuries resulting from the playstyle are connected to in-game performance, and healing faster from them would probably be an unfair advantage. Making such a drug fair game might have the consequence of encouraging athletes to be more reckless, because they can gain rewards in the game and suffer fewer injury-related consequences for doing it.

But if an injury is random, a matter of pure bad luck, then couldn't you say that it would be in the interest of the sport itself to have the player healed up and playing again as quickly as possible? If there was no effect on in-game performance, it would only be ensuring that teams had their full complement of players available as often as possible, and that the sport itself maintained a high level of competition, unhampered by long injuries to some of its best athletes. Maybe Bobby Orr would have played another five years instead of being forced to retire from hocky at a young age. Maybe Johann Santana (or countless others) would still be pitching at an elite level instead of being hampered by the effects of long term injuries that were largely outside of his control.

I don't think it's a real clear cut question.
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Are all PEDs cheating? - 29/01/2013 06:46:28 PM 612 Views
isn't "healing faster than humanly possible" pretty much equivalent to "gain an unfair advantage"? *NM* - 29/01/2013 08:17:09 PM 239 Views
Depends, I think. - 29/01/2013 08:48:45 PM 507 Views
You make a good argument, sir *NM* - 29/01/2013 08:55:44 PM 233 Views
Not if everyone has equal access to that ability. - 02/02/2013 06:10:53 PM 480 Views
I prefer to think about it like this: - 29/01/2013 08:34:35 PM 524 Views
And what exactly is a PED? - 29/01/2013 08:54:17 PM 448 Views
Yeah, I didn't even want to get into that. - 29/01/2013 09:12:26 PM 486 Views
Um. - 29/01/2013 09:15:53 PM 498 Views
no. - 29/01/2013 09:00:02 PM 543 Views
What if ... - 29/01/2013 09:21:00 PM 471 Views
I think your assumptions are flawed... - 29/01/2013 10:01:11 PM 592 Views
Perhaps. - 29/01/2013 10:27:36 PM 504 Views
Yes - 29/01/2013 10:23:17 PM 458 Views

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