The issue of enhanced humans is a huge ethical delimma. While the issue now is 'disabled' people being fitted with mechanical devices to replace lost abilities, the steroid/human growth hormone scandle shows people will go to extremes to win. We accept eye glasses for vision correction but would it be fair for a near future athlete to replace biologic eyes with biomechanical much more powerful eyes? At what point do we stop being human and become cyborgs?

siempre, thats the whole issue though, why do we allow those that need to wear glasses or contacts to compete? Shouldn't they only be allowed to use their own physical gifts? Why do we allow the deaf or the blind to participate in sports? (I wrestled both a blind guy and a deaf guy in high school) They get to play by special rules, you have to be touching the blind guy at all times, the deaf guy is allowed other special rules. A guy with asthma was allowed to take a break if he had an attack (in otherwords if he got tired) But allowing a guy with fake legs to run I guess that is just too far! We allow athletes to take vitamins, and other supplements, we allow them to use the most expensive technology available, but the guy with fake legs... thats too far. Its only too far, because nobody wants to admit that he is just as good as they are.

"Shouldn't they only be allowed to use their own physical gifts?"

You mean the ones that some have hundreds of thousands of dollars to train while others don't have that luxury? Like THAT isn't an unfair advantage?

And what about genetics? Should two abnormally tall individuals get to mate to create an abormally tall competitor in basketball? Isn't that unfair to the normal-sized people trying to play basketball?

And how about clutzes? Some people just don't have athletic ability - isn't it unfair to THEM to not be able to compete with others who do?

At what point do you draw the line?

Oh, that's right - you draw the line at the "feet" of the guy who doesn't have any.

dingle derry,

Your questions are not to the point. They don't actually compare to the discussion at hand which is about ADDING an unfair advantage to an athelete. Disabled or not, at the end of the day this man is an athelete with springs attached. As far as breeding for super tall people...that could be interesting. =]