Swedish Athletes Back GPS Implants to Combat Drug Use

paulraps writes "Swedish athletes Carolina Klüft and Stefan Holm have proposed a radical technological measure to stop top level competitors from taking performance-enhancing drugs. Klüft and Holm, reigning Olympic champions in the heptathlon and high-jump events, argue that competitors at the highest level should either have computer chips implanted into their skin or GPS transmitters attached to their training bags so that the authorities can keep tabs on them at all times."

Re:WTF?

[jsse]

They learn from rental cars, where GPS can track if the rent car broke the speed limit and that implies extra charge.

If the athletes was found moving at around 40 km/h all the time, they must have taken steroid.

If they're moving over 60 km/h, they must be driving a car.

....nevermind then.

Re:Why stop 'em?

[the_humeister]

You mean like this??? [youtube.com]

Re:WTF?

[digitalbountyhunter]

.. and if they are travelling at 16000 km/h, they must be flying a scramjet.

yes yes yes!

[binarybum]

i don't care what anybody says. I think this is the most best idea ever, and I can't think of anything wrong with this idea at all and it will work perfectly and no sportspeople will ever use drugs everagain and BarryBonds will never hit another homerun for the baseball team. And I will be able to login to a website - probably www.wherearetheathletes.com (and you bet it will be dot com and not dot org because only the gay people use dot org and it is not okay to put gps in them.... yet) and watch where all of my favorite squashball players are not buying drugs superimposed on google (tm, evilcorp dot com) maps!!
  Pedro! where the fuck are you?! come refill my crack-pipe!

Re:Iraq

[Anonymous Coward]

How does removing their feet make them run faster?