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The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) says it is "unfairly caught" in a row between the US and China, with their geopolitical tensions spilling onto the Olympic stage. China's top swimmers have been...
- Kelly Ng
- Identifying The Moral Culprit
- Cheating and Unfair Advantage
- A Way Forward
Banned substances are typically synthetic so they artificially enhance athletic performance. If the point of sport is to test the natural limits of human nature then, by artificially extending those limits, doping is at odds with the essence of sport. Many banned substances, such as anabolic steroids, are synthetic. But many naturally occurring sub...
The moral outrage points to a simpler reason for the wrongness of doping. Doping is cheating because it’s against the rules. But why is it against the rules? Because it’s cheating, of course! This argument moves in an embarrassingly small circle. And it doesn’t help to expand the circle: doping is cheating, and cheating is wrong, so doping is wrong...
If there’s no prospect of a clear, non-arbitrary justification for why doping is wrong, one option would be to allow doping in some form or other. Many find that unappealing, presumably because the moral intuition that doping is wrong is so strongly felt. But if it is to be maintained, we need to find another way of justifying it. Here’s one sugges...
Aug 11, 2023 · In 1909, “dope” was employed to describe the “thick treacle-like preparation used in opium smoking,” per the Oxford English Dictionary. But “dope” also had another meaning: a stupid ...
Aug 8, 2016 · The most obvious answer is that doping confers an unfair advantage. But the advantage is only unfairly gained doping is banned: by contravening the rules the doping athlete gets an...
- Heather Dyke
Aug 19, 2015 · According to the UK Anti-Doping Agency, substances and methods are banned when they meet at least two of the three following criteria: they enhance performance, pose a threat to athlete health, or...
Jun 15, 2015 · Why people dope. Assuming you care about doping in the first place (some people don’t), a key issue to clarify is your theory about why people dope.
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Jul 25, 2024 · The World Anti-Doping Agency was formed after the International Olympic Committee called for changes in the wake of some of sports’ most sordid drug-cheating episodes — among them, Ben Johnson’s drug-tainted ouster from the Seoul Games in 1988 and a doping scandal at the 1998 Tour de France.
