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Name: Doping
Brand: Reaktion Books
SKU: 9781789145274
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A Sporting History

Contributor(s): April Henning Author , Paul Dimeo Author Format: Hardback

Hardback · ISBN 9781789145274

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ISBN	9781789145274
Subtitle	A Sporting History
Publisher	Reaktion Books
Publication date	May 2022
Language	English
MRP	£22.00 GBP
Page count	240

Why is doping a perennial problem for sport? Is this solely a contemporary phenomenon? And should doping always be regarded as cheating, or do today’s anti-doping measures go too far? Drawing on case studies from the early twentieth century to the present day, Doping: A Sporting History explores why the current anti-doping system looks as it does, charting its origins to the founding of the modern Olympic Games. From interwar notions of sporting purity to the post-war stimulant crisis, what seemed an easily resolvable problem soon became an impossible challenge as pharmacology improved, the policy system stuttered, and Cold War politics allowed doping to flourish. The late twentieth century saw the creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency, but has the intensity of these global measures led to unintended harms? From the cyclist Tommy Simpson, who died in 1967 on Mont Ventoux with amphetamines in his jersey, to ?Team Russia’s expulsion from the 2018 Winter Olympics, Doping: A Sporting History is a gripping, provocative account that ultimately proposes a new approach: one for the inclusion and protection of athletes themselves.

Doping

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April Henning Author

Paul Dimeo Author

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