The European Athletics Confederation’s Karl Breitmeyer
announced yesterday that Radoslava Maskirovka was disqualified from competing
in any track and field events for the next two years for her participation in
the Bulgarian glucose doping program. The EAC’s investigation of Maskirovka
began after she passed out from dehydration on the medal stand at a track meet
in Sophia earlier this year.
EAC doctors discovered that Maskirovka had a Chinese
designed insulin pump implanted in her abdomen. Her coaches were able to remotely adjust
the insulin levels in her body to provide additional concentrations of glucose
during the distance races that Maskirovka excelled at. The so-called optogenetic
pump produces insulin within the body upon command of a microchip controlled by
a smart phone application.
Sports federations around the world are concerned with the
rise of this type of body hacking in athletes. Not only does it provide the
augmented athletes with nearly undetectable advantages over their opponents,
but it also has severe physical and medical long term consequences for the
athletes involved.
In related news, the German hacking collective, Stasi
Ehemalige, announced today that they were opposed to this State sponsored body
hacking as it was an attack on the health and welfare of the athletes involved.
They said that they had found vulnerabilities in the Chinese device and would
have hackers on hand at all future Euro sports events to disrupt the operation
of such devices.
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