Microchips Suggested As Anti-Doping Essay

After reading “Microchips Suggested as Anti-Doping Solution” in Athletic Business I learned Mike Miller is the CEO of the International Olympians Association. He is very familiar with the international issue of PEDs, doping, and use of illegal substances for athletes in professional sports. His suggestion to help regulate this international issue is to use Microchips to detect an athlete's possible use of any banned substance or practice. This issue of illegal use of drugs or blood doping has been a challenge for many years now, and the Olympics might have been the first real case of noted athletes. Mike is simply saying that since computer chips are used as a common practice to track behavior, why not have the athletes in these professional sports be part of this practice. The question that comes to mind, however, is privacy and consistency versus the proof of a level playing field in the sport. Nicole Sapstead, the chief executive for UK Anti-doping makes the strong argument that things related to technology can be tampered with and the data associated with the process is a pushing the bounds of a privacy issue. She goes on to …show more content…
Professional athletes that are caught using illegal methods to gain advantages can lose multi-million dollar contracts and the teams they represent can fall also in the result if that athlete is banned from playing for their team or country. So in the argument between the two international voices of Miller and Sapstead, you can see how they both have a valid point. Tracking the athletes can be accomplished with Miller’s suggestion of the chip to monitor the Athlete’s daily intake and regulation of their bodies. While Sapstead opinion that's a big push into the privacy of an athlete and the ability to have the big picture of every athlete would be a serious challenge. In order to create products that create demand worldwide sport managers need to have a global