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This is what the common person doesn't understand. The Olympics roll around and everyone wants to see a new world record being set in every category. The NFL season rolls around and everyone wants to see players hitting harder, running faster, being more superman-like than last season. And then of course they want all of their athletes to be clean too.I'm really starting to worry that the testing will eventually catch up with the athletes and make most sports a lot cleaner. It seems they are ramping it up in that department, and we as fans, will be stuck watching clean athletes. Look at the IOC banning the Russian track and field team from the Olympics, and now over 50 tests showing positive results for doping from the Beijing and London Olympics the other day. It would really suck to watch a clean Olympics or MMA.
Drugs have been around for long enough in sports at this point that I think it would be difficult to truly take them away and not have most sports regress a good 20 years in regards to performance, watchability, entertainment, etc. The common person doesn't understand just how important drugs are to what they enjoy observing.