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Anti-doping – the end of sport
Verner Møller,Paul Dimeo +1 more
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In this article, the authors argue that sport is essentially deteriorating under the current anti-doping campaign executed by an uncoordinated alliance between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), law enforcement authorities, sports organizers and the media.Abstract:
We will argue that sport is essentially deteriorating under the current anti-doping campaign executed by an un-coordinated alliance between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), law enforcement authorities, sports organizers and the media. We will develop our argument in three steps. We begin with a brief consideration of the fundamental characteristics that define the kind of sport WADA was established to protect. After this, we use the case of cycling to demonstrate the unplanned consequences of the current sanction system and show how it diminishes the meaning of sport before we finish the article by calling for a more rational and level-headed approach which is urgently needed to bring sport out of its current mess.read more
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Can We Better Integrate the Role of Anti-Doping in Sports and Society? A Psychological Approach to Contemporary Value-Based Prevention.
TL;DR: Organisations involved in anti- doping should avoid the image of "controlling" but, instead, work in partnerships with all stakeholders to involve and ensure integration of the targeted individuals in global community-based preventive interventions.
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The ‘spirit of sport’, WADAs code review, and the search for an overlapping consensus
Sigmund Loland,Mike McNamee +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued for the recognition that anti-doping is in itself first and foremost an ethical position and a re-formulation of ‘the spirit of sport’ in terms of athlete protection and the preservation of the integrity of sporting competition that could meet requirements on an overlapping consensus among all WADA stakeholders.
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An (un)desirable trade of harms? How elite athletes might react to medically supervised ‘doping’ and their considerations of side-effects in this situation
TL;DR: Interpreting results with the understanding of sport as an exceptional and risky working environment suggests that legalising certain 'doping' substances under medical supervision would create other/new types of harms, and this 'trade-off of harms and benefits' would be undesirable considering the occupational health, working conditions and well-being of most athletes.
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The toxic doxa of “clean sport” and IOC’s and WADA’s quest for credibility:
TL;DR: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have been held accountable for the Russian crisis, a major state-sponsored doping scandal, which began in 2014 as mentioned in this paper.
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Limitations and duties: elite athletes’ perceptions of compliance with anti-doping rules
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how elite athletes perceive their own responsibilities and possibilities to be compliant with the anti-doping regulations, and draw conclusions about what these perceptions mean in relation to the legitimacy of the system.
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Sport, culture and the media : the unruly trinity
TL;DR: The author's foreword and preface to the 2nd edition of this book were written by the author herself.
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The Establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agency: A Study of the Management of Organizational Change and Unplanned Outcomes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which was established following the World Conference on Doping in Sport convened by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and held in Lausanne in 1999.
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The Ethics of Doping and Anti-Doping: Redeeming the Soul of Sport?
TL;DR: In this paper, Moller argues that the fight against doping is at heart a battle to save sport from itself, located on the fault-line between the will to purity and the will-to-win, and that only by containing coaches, doctors and drug companies within the anti-doping regime can we hope to ever make progress on this most important issue.
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The Ethics of Doping and Anti-Doping: Redeeming the Soul of Sport?
TL;DR: Verner Moller, The Ethics of Doping and Anti-Doping: Redeeming the Soul of Sport? New York: Routledge, 2010 as mentioned in this paper, p. 165.
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The Tour de France: A Cultural History
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a history of cycling in Twentieth-Century France, focusing on the La Grande Boucle: cycling, progress, and modernity in 19th-century France.