Individual athletes, sports teams and coaches are continuously looking for ways to improve performance and achievement in elite competition. New performance analysis techniques are a key part of the weight behind athletic perfection. Combining the fields of biomedicine, sports engineering and nanotechnology, the innovative technology has the potential to revolutionize sports, enabling the collection of real-time biological data from athletes that can be distributed electronically. The philosophy of transhumanism includes the physical and mental development of human beings with the contributions of various technologies. Sports science is also included in these discussions because it fundamentally involves a human being. The case of 'Blade Runner' Oscar Pistorius is particularly used to illustrate and defend 'transhumanist' ideologies that promote the use of technology to extend human capabilities. Some argue that the new technologies will undermine the stark contrast between the athlete as a cultural hero and icon and the person with a disability who needs extra attention or care; one is an example of the pinnacle of normality, human functioning at its best, the other is a way of dealing with opposites. In this overview, the focus is on the interaction of technology and human beings and its reflection on sports, and the possible threats and challenges that transhumanism brings to sports are presented.