I understand the reasoning as to why the Olympics are "drug-free," but I have never really understood the other side of the argument.
Sports have improved in all sorts of ways. We have better training methods. We have better equipment. We have better medicine.
While I'm not sure I'd try it, I would love to see the limits of human ability with PEDs. I'd be willing to bet that some of those drugs would translate well to medicine for non-elite athletes.
It's the other way round; most PEDs _are_ medicine for regular people, abused by athletes. E.g., synthetic EPO is really useful if you just had chemotherapy for cancer and that killed off nearly all of your red blood cells.
Anyways, if you want competitions with doping, there are high-level bodybuilder competitions that don't test.
Sports have improved in all sorts of ways. We have better training methods. We have better equipment. We have better medicine.
While I'm not sure I'd try it, I would love to see the limits of human ability with PEDs. I'd be willing to bet that some of those drugs would translate well to medicine for non-elite athletes.