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SUMMARY:Designer Athletes: fair play or foul? - Steve Ingham\, Head of Phy
 siology at the English Institute of Sport\; Steve Haake\, director of the 
 Centre for Sports Engineering Research at Sheffield Hallam University.
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CONTACT:Andrew N Holding
DESCRIPTION:Imagine the sporting champions of the future: humans so enhanc
 ed by pharmaceuticals and prosthetics that they smash the world records we
  consider impressive today.\n\nIt sounds far-fetched\, but developments in
  science and technology mean it could become a reality. This event explore
 s the research that is taking place now that could produce the "designer a
 thletes" of tomorrow. We will offer a glimpse of the future and ask: shoul
 d our sporting champions rely on their natural ability\, or be allowed to 
 embrace pharmacological and technological enhancements?\n\nWe will also ex
 plore the fine line between "doping" and natural enhancement through train
 ing that exists today.  We are already seeing athletes living and training
  at altitude to increase how much oxygen their blood can carry\, so should
  the drug that mimics this effect - EPO - still be banned in professional 
 sports? Where do we draw the line?\n\nThe Physiological Society invites yo
 u to discuss these controversial questions and the science behind them wit
 h Steve Ingham\, Head of Physiology at the English Institute of Sport\; St
 eve Haake\, director of the Centre for Sports Engineering Research at Shef
 field Hallam University\; and other panellists from the world of sports. T
 ell us what shape you think our future sporting champions should be in.
LOCATION:Mill Lane Room 3
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