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“Citius,
Altius, Fortius”: A motto for limitless enhancement?
for ICSSPE Pre-Olympic Congress, Brisbane, Sept 2000.
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Inevitably,
the striving for greater success in competitive sport forces
the question of what constitutes an appropriate form of
enhancement. The situation is increasingly such that it
is unclear whether an athlete’s performance has been afforded
by legitimate athletic training, advances in sports equipment,
diet, or methods of doping. This paper argues that sports
perpetuate an ambiguous distinction between acceptable and
unacceptable methods of performance enhancement and that
such ambiguity demands a conceptual framework of understanding.
Supposedly legitimate advances in sports equipment can be
seen as circumventing the very qualities that sports seeks
to assess, in a way that is comparable to doping. Consequently,
this paper focuses on sports technology, arguing the extent
to which performance-enhancement is congruent with the Olympic
ideal. It is argued that performance-enhancing technology
is quite in keeping with elite sport’s ambition for achieving
greater efficiency. However, the limitations on permissible
technologies and human limits to performance makes problematic
the aspirations for sustaining the Olympic motto without
employing means of performance enhancement that might be
considered as unacceptable. Moreover, it is argued that
the sophistication of sports technology can have the undesirable
effect of lessening the need to be expert in a particular
activity. Thus, it can be argued that technological development
can devalue a performance. Such technologies as genetic
engineering and prosthetic enhancement reflect innovations
that are similar in concept to the sophistication of sports
equipment. Consequently, it is necessary for developments
in sport technology to recognise the potential for radical
technology to become accepted within sports as a result
of legitimising seemingly inconsequential examples of sports
equipment. A failure to recognise this will render sports
whereby the distinction between permissible and illegal
means becomes irrevocably blurred.
Keywords:
performance enhancement, technology, equipment, Olympic.
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art&design // bioethics // china // cyberculture // ethics // law // medicine // olympics // outer space // politics // public engagement with science // science // sport // technology
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