I’m not a huge sports fan, but even I enjoyed some bits of the recent 2012 London Olympics. But mostly I actually enjoyed the Paralympics.

Now there’s this big scandal regarding Lance Armstrong, and his apparently sophisticated, and successful doping programme. Well, not totally successful obviously, as he has been found out.

What I’m wondering is: Should there be an arena for sports where “Anything goes”.

It may be a lot more interesting to watch.

Limbering up for the next alternative Olympics?

Imagine: Win at any cost. You want to take steroids? Go for it. You want to have some technology medically implanted? To the Frankenstein laboratory!

Want to enter a sprint or jumping competition with some of those funky prosthetic leg thingamies, even though there’s nothing wrong with yours? You’re on!

Springs for knees? Do it.

Remove your ears for streamlining purposes? Of course.

Genetically modify yourself so you have giraffe legs? Bravo Sir!

In this way, through a technology and bio engineering race, and maybe via some horrific accidents, mutations and inadvertent creation of comic-book monsters, it might speed up our evolution to a race of kick-ass cyborgs.

Current limp wristed thinking that restricts the use of certain equipment in cycling, or what an athlete can eat, or the technology that is allowed to be used in F1 is just slowing us down.

Look back to the early 80’s and the days of the Group B rally spec, where teams of lunatic engineers, were making cars super extreme, modifying them into supercars capable of tearing around on gravel at speeds that would make an F1 driver shake. Piloted by drivers with conkers made of steel. OK there were some enormous accidents with fatal consequences, but that’s all part of the gamble. But the killjoys extinguished group B. If they hadn’t we’d all probably have cars by now that can do 200mph up a steep incline with the aircon on, and the 48 speaker stereo going full tilt, with a million airbags, still getting 200 MPG, as a result of their trailblazing.

No progress without pain.

So bring it on. I want to watch an alternative to the Olympics full of super-hero freaks sticking two fingers up to the laws of physics, and prudish common sense and “fair play”.