I hate this idea so much. Not because I particularly care what professional athletes do to themselves, but because I don’t want a trickle down effect resulting high school kids taking dangerous drugs. Ok, it’s too late for that, but it would be nice to minimize the effect.
It does raise a question of what existing records relied on athletes being seriously enhanced. To have a currently competitive swimmer on gear and in a super suit only be able to knock 0.02 off of a 16 year old record is more than a bit suspicious. And I don’t know what to do with some old, clearly doped records (yes, I’m looking at you, the slew of women’s athletics WRs from 1988). If you eliminate those, how deep do you go before you select something as legitimate?
