Agassi does Meth... Phelps takes a Hit from a Bong... Who Cares?!?!

        So, everyone should remember the article and the picture of Michael Phelps taking a hit from a bong.  Michael Phelps managed to get caught doing this right after he won a record-breaking number of gold medals in his pursuit of athletic perfection.  There were a lot of teammates that were able to help him achieve this goal, but for all intents and purposes, it was his own determination and will power that got the job done.  The man for a total of four years did nothing but stick to the strictest of diet plans, workout twice a day 6 days a week and once on the seventh, and refrain from all drugs and alcohol.  Keep in mind he was doing all of this while in college, or what is supposed to be the largest time period of most people's avid drinking and fun-time events.  Great job.

        Andre Agassi, though not as intense a short-time period work effort, has performed just as diligently in his athletic field.  He has won title after title, and has actually managed to be one of the longest running tennis champions of all time, competing with tennis icons half his age.  His prolonged competitions finally culminated in a major championship match against the great one-hand back-hander, Roger Federer.  He did lose that match, but getting there was a feat in itself.  Now he is admitting that back in 1997, he failed a drug test because he snorted a single line with a person of bad influence of his life.  That person was also fired from his staff soon thereafter.

          The point of relaying both of those stories is to say: Who Cares?!  How this relates to emerging technology is that recently better drug testing paradigms have been released.  What will be caught now?  Will a teenage gymnast lose her medal because she rubs lotion on her skin before competition?  Will there ever be a method for controlling what substances are considered enabling and which ones are not?  It seems to me like the drugs that everyone is making a big deal over are ones that are not enabling, but comically inhibiting (especially meth).  Let me hear about drug testing before Mr Universe or a non-Olympic weightlifting/bodybuilding competition.  I am sure that that drug test would be a true test of its accuracy and scope.