First Thought Of The Day
The weird part to me about sports' current obsession with steroid and other body-altering drugs and their application to athletic competition is that it involves revisiting contests that have been completed. This means that every result in sports is open to interpretation forever, which I think weakens the finality of these contests -- events are never over now. It's strange to me that a competing idea hasn't developed further: that if you cheat in sports and don't get caught, you didn't cheat. This seems to me to make a lot more sense than it does to keep all sporting contests forever open to re-examination, only closing those that seem to have some general public agreement that they're closed. It would also provide greater consistency between cheating that has news currency and cheating that doesn't.
