Success in sports entails striving toward greater achievement and outstanding performance.
In their pursuit of these goals, adolescent athletes use various means and resort to …

Athlete support personnel (ASP) failing to meet responsibilities under the W orld A nti‐D
oping C ode risk sanction. It is unclear whether the poor knowledge of responsibilities seen …

Background: Athletes are expected to be good role models, compete fairly and allow the
public insight into their personal lives away from sport. Objective: The purpose of this paper …

Despite the widespread interest in athletes' use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in
track and field, the voices of the athletes who use banned substances have seldom been …

Against the backdrop of an increasing use of the term 'doping'in circumstances other than
the classical understanding, this theoretic article provides a new and comprehensive inter …

Models of athlete decisions to use performance‐enhancing substance and method (PESM)
lack an empirical base. In this paper, the validity of the content (variables thought to …

The subject position of elite athletes has become increasingly clear as sport becomes more
commercialized and spectacularised. Elite athletes are exploited and relatively power-less …

The management of drugs in sport has been dominated by the policy of anti-doping.
Experience with this policy over the last 50 years or so suggests there may be more effective …

Objective: To test Goldman's dilemma on a general population sample by asking whether
they would take the Faustian bargain of a drug that guaranteed sporting success but would …

This book is an innovative and compelling work that develops a modified moral panic model
illustrated by the drugs in sport debate. Drawing on Max Weber's work on moral authority …