Forget the Olympics - Here come the Superhuman games for genetically enhanced humans

Forget the Olympics - Here come the Superhuman games for genetically enhanced humans | Mail Online: "Superhuman athletes created by gene therapy and biomechanical engineering will one day be competing at the Olympics - but will need their own events, predict scientists.

Performance-enhancing technologies will advance to a point where they will not only extend human limits - but demand a events all of their own, similar to the Formula One version of car racing.



Professor Hugh Herr of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology said: 'For each one there will be a new sport - power running and power swimming and power climbing.

'Just like the invention of the bicycle led to the sport of cycling. What we’ll see is the emergence of all kinds of new sports.'

Mechanical prosthetics will become much more proficient than the ‘cheetah-style’ legs used by amputees including Oscar Pistorius from South Africa."