Instead, the day is filled with creating athletes that can handle 40 knot, 72 foot racing machines.
Both cycling and athletics have recently handed over management of the biological passport to a newly created Athlete Passport Management Unit (APMU), based at the Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses (LAD) in Lausanne.
But now, Mr. Seidman said, they are "looking to create ethical athletes out of their managers" who are capable of navigating the gray areas.
But with young players growing bigger and faster every year, and with so much money to be won instantly when a prodigy from a poor family turns pro, the temptation to create model athletes -- to breed them like fruit flies for special traits -- no longer seems like science fiction.
And as Ross Greenburg, the president of HBO Sports, lamented, the next great or even very good American heavyweight will have to appear "out of the woodwork" because "there's a sense of an assembly line here to create great athletes for basketball and football, where size is a factor".
As the national and ideological battles of the Cold War moved into the sports arena, many states sanctioned sports development programs to create winning athletes to represent the nation at elite international competitions.
That was also part of the reason why Facebook was able to convince the International Olympic Committee to go with a dedicated page on its platform rather than trying to create an athletes' portal of this kind on its own Olympics.com site.
For this reason he does not appear in some baseball video games, forcing game-makers to create generic athletes to replace him.
