With so many new genes and health discoveries a new question arises in whether or not "genetically gifted" individuals should play professional sports. Taking steroids to play better is one thing, but no one can penalize someone for being born better. Liam Hoekstra is facing discrimination before the age of five for having a body made of almost all muscle. People are who they are. For obvious reasons a steroid user isn't allowed to play because he isn't naturally gaining muscle or improving his special skill. Liam's genes make him that way, making him a natural better swimmer than most his age.
Take Olympic Gold Medalist, Michael Phelps, he was "designed" to swim. Just because he has longer arms and shorter legs, and an ability to recover from exercise faster doesn't mean he is at an unfair advantage. It is very fair because he wouldn't be Michael Phelps without the genes he was given. These gifted individuals still have to train and work their butts off in the sport to get to where they are. They don't try to cheat the system by injecting substances their bodies don't produce enough of. This is 100% the natural deal.
Society doesn't just mascara models for having amazingly long and think eyelashes. They use what their mommas gave them, and athletes should be no different. So they have more muscle building proteins or an ability to get rid of lactic acid at a rate the rest of us would die for. It's what makes them the best at what they do. Just because all Olympic Medalists or Pro-Football players haven't had their DNA analyzed doesn't mean that they don't have genes that make them excel. Give these people a break; they did, after all, win the lotto of amazing chromosomes.
