They should make it more interesting by requiring a minimum age of 45 or whatever depending on sport, that will avoid the issue of damage that some of the peds can do to the young and impressionable. Plus normal athletes could come back into sports so there is a definitive before and after with a group that generally clean before. Plus what better way to demonstrate the anti aging effect than on people otherwise too old to be competitive.

I suppose you are only referring to the young directly involved, but the young watching the comp could also be just as impressionable and start looking into using the same drugs.

But my real take is this hopefully gets everyone to understand how meaningless/ugly this all is and actually combats PED use that way.

Seeing their parents do it should make it less cool.

Having seen what kind of adults such bubble wrapped children turn into I think that perhaps some risk should be acceptable, let nature sort a few things out, and understand we're not all going to survive to old age. As sad as it is to see a child die before their time, I think it's more sad to see adults who have never lived.

I taken a lot of PEDs for therapeutic reasons to combat the effects of ME/CFS, mainly hGH peptides and Test Cypionate but also some of the esoteric stuff as well. So I'm generally pro PEDs when done in moderation. Obviously some people go overboard. I think a lot of innate athletic prowess is higher endogenous level of many of the same PEDs so you could probably identify likely athletes with DNA tests. So what are these competitions for, to figure out who has the better DNA + work ethic? I'm all for armature sports done for the benefit of the participants.