At the real Olympics everybody is issued their equipment instead of bringing their own, I think. The athletes in 10 AF might have to sleeve into morphs given to them by the hypecorp sponsor of the event. This way only your skill counts, and despite skillsofts this is one of the most valued aspects of a person in EP, if not _the_ most valued.

Splicers. All the Splicers would add to the same aptitude, to keep it level. If really smart, to keep it about their learned skill, the aptitude would be something like COG or SAV, and not one of the 'physical' ones. I only say splicers over flats because most flats still belong to the person BORN into it, and they might not be keen on sharing yet. And the medical software in the mesh inserts of a splicer is good for tracking the status of the competitors to make sure they are not using enhancement drugs.

I completely disagree about the morphs in question. I believe each competitor would show up in a custom Biomorph. Probably based on the Olympian, but modified to excel at their competition. Why? Because these games celebrate Transhuman achievement, not just human achievement anymore. Part of that is morphological adaptation. Choosing the right mods for your morph will be as important to these games as proper diet and training regimen are to the modern version. Also, people simply won't care unless we're looking at the actual peak of transhuman potential. It doesn't matter if running a 4 minute mile is a huge achievement for a splicer, if the average Olympian morph could achieve the same feat without training. And yes, Hypercorporate sponsors would desperately want to put together the perfect morph to show off their skills, and enjoy the profits as thousands of customers request the Usain Bolt model custom Olympian morph. That said, it would almost certainly be restricted to Biomorphs. Synthmorphs are simply to machine-like to seem true to the spirit of the games, especially because they have options that would grant them too great an advantage in many competitions. Without this restriction the 100m dash becomes the Indy 500. Bioconservatives will pitch a fit when a custom morph with cheetah DNA wins the 100m dash, and when the swimmers look more like mermaids than Humans. But outside the Jovian Junta, they're don't have the clout to trump the points above. They'll probably have their own "Pure Human only" Olympics. And to most transhumans will be a bit of a joke, like the Special Olympics are to many people today. As to Gravity, I expect to see specific contests suited to the most common types. The Hundred Meter dash will probably have 1G, Mars G, Lunar G and Zero G versions run by different competitors. I'm more interested in the new categories we'll see. Zero-G gymnastics, for example, or the freerunning course, or lunar Flying.

One of the problems with doping today is the "spirit of sport" argument: we want to see interesting sports, sports that in some sense is meaningful (the other arguments about fairness and health are less relevant here). People do not want to see human achievement replaced by tools, and hence the debates about shark-skin swimsuits and whether Pistorius is bad for running. Yet we are also fascinated by doing things in more extreme ways, even if they are very technical - people do like to watch Formula 1 or monster truck racing, despite the driver being relatively unimportant compared to his engineering team. A nice solution to this is to have every sport declare a "mission statement": what it actually is about. From this one can see what enhancements or tools make sense. If running is all about human-style bipedal running uplifts, synthmorphs and pneumatic limbs are out, but it might be OK with olympians with really boosted leg musculature. And so on. One might even invent new sports that fit with new kinds of bodies, like ones that benefit from the precision and tirelessness of synthmorphs.