ABSTRACT
This chapter is intended as a speculation on what might happen to the idea of ‘sport’ and the nature and popularity of sporting competition in the twentyfirst century as a result of the impact of bio-technology. In the arguments which follow, the reader should bear in mind two thought experiments: first, that all attempts to regulate drugs and doping in sport are abandoned and, second, that we will increasingly be able to ‘build’ athletes either by breeding them or by the insertion of genes into existing competitors, for example, to duplicate the effects of stamina-increasing drugs such as EPO.
