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Cyborg competition is going to be more or less entertaining depending upon the sport.

For many events in the Olympics, I'd completely agree with you. Human variation adds a lot of drama. If every sprinter were to run on the same Footech XYZ-4 Hamstring, etc., it's hard to imagine there would be many differences between those sprinters. It'd be boring without other changes to the sport.

On the other hand, doping and augmentation could allow entirely new types of sport. Diving from 500 meters. Sprinters with pit crews like race cars. American football players with their brains removed. I might be interested to watch some of that.



"American football players with their brains removed."

So remote controlled human bodies crashing into each other?




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