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Sports and the cult of execution

Justin Landy, Daniel Walco, and Daniel M. Bartels (Chicago): What’s Wrong with Using Steroids? Exploring Whether and Why People Oppose the Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs. The ridiculous saga of Lance Armstrong, the cheater who became an enemy of the state. Are physical limits all in our heads? We are nowhere close to the limits of athletic performance: Genetic engineering will bring us new Bolts and Shaqs. Rognvaldur D. Ingthorsson (Lund): Is Competitive Elite Sport Really Morally Corrupt? Andrew Potter on high performance sports and the cult of execution: A response to the Krauthammer Conjecture. Regarding the pain of others: Nathaniel Friedman on sports injuries and mortality.