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Swedish athletes favour chip implants
A PAIR of Swedes - Carolina Klüft and Stefan Holm – has sparked controversy over plans for 'tagging' athletes which would involve either a chip implant or a permanently carrying around a GPS receiver.
Apparently, the proposal is aimed at tackling the thorny issue of 'doping', whereby athletes have to predict their whereabouts for the next quarter so that they can be arbitrarily tested.
"I have previously proposed that we should have computer chips surgically implanted into our skin," Klüft told The Local. "But it might be just as good if everybody at a certain level had a key ring with a GPS transmitter on their training bags."
When asked for his reaction to the proposal, fellow Swedish athlete Stefan Holm replied – "Why not?" He feels carrying a GPS receiver around would be better than being treated with suspicion the whole time.
However, he believes for a scheme to work 100 per cent it would be better for all athletes to have a chip implant.
So Big Brother won't just be watching you, he'll be right under your skin. µ
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Why don't they make the implant actually do the dope tests!! It must be easier for a chip in the body to pick up the large concentrations of a chemical right after taking it than them trying to pick it up in samples taken weeks later? When the athletes report to an event the chip could be communicated with a wand thing (ala harry potter) and if it reports that no drugs have been detected they would be allowed to compete, if not then they would not - simple, you also don't need a massive infrastructure of servers to monitor the movements of all these athletes and high-powered gps transmitters under the skin then!
Theese chips i must assume are the same kind that have proven to cause tumers and cancer.
If the athletes had a couple of neurons to rub together they would tell the masters of this chipping scheme to get raped in hell.
There is a problem or two with that idea. You see, chip could detect preprogrammed chemicals, but what with the new ones? And what about jamming the readout with another transmitter located nearby so that you end up getting a false positive (or false negative)?
I know sportspeople are generally thick but the gentleman quoted in this article takes it to extreme. What exactly would the postulated implant DO? What purpose would it serve?

If he's after something of normal implant size (grain of rice size or whatever) that functions as a GPS receiver then transmits that data to an external infrastructure without requiring a frequent recharge procedure (via induction?) and without giving the host cancer ... I think he's going to be disappointed.
Just make doping compulsory, you know they all use it anyway.