02854nam 2200457za 450 991082486410332120230627151244.09781789145281 (e-book)9781789145274 (hbk.)(OCoLC)1315537605(MiAaPQ)EBC6976895(Au-PeEL)EBL6976895(CKB)22046296600041(EXLCZ)992204629660004120220510d2022 uy 0engurcn|nnn|||||Doping a sporting history /April Henning and Paul DimeoLondon Reaktion Books20221 online resource (237 p.) illPrint version (OCoLC)1273672366 Print version: Henning, April Doping London : Reaktion Books, Limited,c2022 9781789145274 Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.Introduction -- 1. The origins of doping and anti-doping in modern sport -- 2. Speed and steroids -- 3. The beginnings of testing -- 4. How doping became an epidemic -- 5. The end of innocence -- 6. Facing up to the scandals -- 7. A new approach -- 8. Problems and proposals.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 in sportsHistoryAthletesDrug useHistorySportsCorrupt practicesDoping in sportsHistory.AthletesDrug useHistory.SportsCorrupt practices.362.29088796Henning April1361289Dimeo Paul1971-1693914MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824864103321Doping4072078UNINA