North Korea's inadequate national doping testing allows athletes to engage in metabolic "fuckery" during their prep phase while avoiding detection until international testing. However, WADA steps in during competition phases to test athletes at their peak, making it harder for them to cheat.
The World Anti-Doping Agency is used for international events, but each country must have its own national testing for doping. This leads to discrepancies in regulations and potential corruption within national agencies.
The impact of steroid use in sports is mitigated by tactics and skill, more prevalent in cycling and Olympic weightlifting, and can be manipulated to favor certain countries, lifters, or athletes. Hard stances may be necessary to eliminate steroid use from sports.
The incentive to win has overridden athletes' virtue or integrity, leading to a drug problem in the Olympic games.
The speaker questions the ethical implications of steroid use in sports and assumes that most athletes are already using them, especially in sports that do not perform testing.
The biggest issue with doping in sports is the protection of athletes who cheat. It is almost impossible to have a policy in place where clean athletes can compete on a level playing field with those who use performance-enhancing drugs.