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Enhancements such as doping are illegal in sport — but if all restrictions were lifted, science could push human performance to new extremes.

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Thompson, H. Performance enhancement: Superhuman athletes. Nature 487, 287–289 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/487287a

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