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Luke Bannister
After the Olympics, and many other human sports, have become mired in cheating allegations, you might be excited to hear that from 2017, we may no longer need people to compete for gold at all. Following the World Drone Prix in Dubai this weekend, which saw a 15-year-old British kid take home the top $250,000 prize, the gulf state has unveiled plans to hold a futuristic Olympics every two years starting in 2017. It is billed to feature nine competitions, including driverless car racing, robotic soccer, robotic running, manned drones racing, robotic swimming, robotic table tennis, robotic wrestling, drone races and a cybathlon…

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