Re: gene doping/PED tattoos?
Gene doping sounds like they would need a control sample taken at an early point in order to catch you .
As for the Tattoos.. Having a few tats and designing them for people, I would imagine that there would be some sort of scarring. It has to be done right. All tattoos will scab over but if you have a poor tattoo artist that goes too deep, the design will be raised after and you can feel the lines if you run your fingers over with your eyes closed. What your feeling is scar tissue. Technically you could get a regular tattoo right before getting in the ring and still have the resulting euphoria from the endorphins (think runners high) which you would eventually get anyway. You would also have to deal with the fever though (which you also get from something like a fracture or a broken jaw- the body natural response) .. In the long term I would have to wonder how often it would have to be reapplied. Very easy to mask if you're a spadafora or collazo type that's tatted up to your eyeballs.
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