Steroids are banned because of their potential to increase and improve the natural physical and mental limits of the athlete. In the sports world competitors who take illegal substances to outperform their opponent or break a record are said to be dirty.
The mind of the athlete is where it all begins, Arthur Ashe first coined the term "In the zone" regarding athletes who seem to perform and execute flawlessly without missing, getting results where if he was not in "the zone" would not otherwise achieve.
When Arthur coined that term, he had in mind an athlete after tremendous on court and off court training, somehow managing to be in the zone while competing, champions get there on a regular basis , while lesser competitors rarely visit, if ever that territory. He did not have in mind athletes being hooked up to computers and other gadgets to train their mind to zone out , at the snap of a finger.
Psychologists are hard at work trying to perfect Neurofeedback training, - when they identify the correct brainwave patterns that athletes generate when "in the zone", they will create computer programs hooked on various gadgets to automatically put the athlete in the perfect can't lose feeling.
I see this technology no different then steroids, it would also raise the bar on the PRICE to become a pro athlete, gone would be the days of true humans competing, replaced by programmed robots to stay in the perfect zone.
I say ban it now!
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Amelie Mauresmo
