For people who you'd think more open-minded than the average citizen there's a depressingly closed mindset being demonstrated in the posts above. The idea of eating somebody's poo is misguided and straight out of an ill-informed tabloid newspaper article.
We all have thousands of benign (and occasionally malign) bacteria living in our guts and it's likely some of us already have this bacterium. I haven't read the article but I'd be willing to bet that the bacterium thrives as a consequence of a healthy lifestyle rather than causing people to become athletes.