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NBC Steroid Tests Its Gladiators
Okay, so baseball, America’s game, might be tainted with performance enhancing drugs. But what about America’s game show, American Gladiators? That reality-based programming is clean. NBC Universal gave all the gladiators steroid tests before the show and the athletes can be tested at any time. Even a subsidy of GE has more respect for purity of its game than Major League Baseball.
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What about blood tests for HGH and other PEDs that don't show up in traditional steroid tests? It's not that NBC is claiming the high ground but unless they're doing Olympic-style testing, I'm fairly skeptical.
Well, in the sense that we don't want any rigging a la the original version of "21," I guess it's nice to know that the show isn't trying to favor any one side over the other. Beyond that, why does anyone care if any of the competitors on either side are juiced? If anything, I think it might be more interesting to fans to know how well your average challenger can fare against a bunch of raging 'roid-heads.