ArticleDrugs (Abingdon, England)2015
Questions of fairness and anti-doping in US cycling: The contrasting experiences of professionals and amateurs.
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- Efficient Ways to Combat Doping in a Sports Education Context!? A Systematic Review on Doping Prevention Measures Focusing on Young Age Groups.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2021Pooled it
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- The effects of athletes' moral identity on clean sport behavior intentions: a cross-national study of the mediating role of moral disengagement and self-efficacy.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Fighting fair: community perspectives on the fairness of performance enhancement in esports.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Challenges to promoting health for amateur athletes through anti-doping policy.Drugs (Abingdon, England) · 2017Article
- Sport-Induced Substance Use-An Empirical Study to the Extent within a German Sports Association.PloS one · 2016Article
- Health Culture and Running: Non-Elite Runners' Understandings of Doping and Supplementation.Journal of amateur sport · 2015Article
- The complexities of anti-doping violations: a case study of sanctioned cases in all performance levels of USA cycling.Performance enhancement & healthArticle
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Abstract
The focus of researchers, media and policy on doping in cycling is often limited to the professional level of the sport. However, anti-doping test results since 2001 demonstrate that banned substances are also used by US cyclists at lower levels of the sport, necessitating a broader view of the patterns and motivations of substance use within the sport. In this article, we describe and explain the doping culture that has emerged in domestic US cycling among amateur and semi-professionals. Through analysis of records from sports governing bodies and journalistic reports, we assess the range of violation types and discuss the detection and punishing of riders who were not proven to have intended to cheat but became "collateral damage" in the war on doping. We argue that the phenomenon of doping is more complex than what has been shown to occur in elite sport, as it includes a wider variety of behaviours, situations and motivations. We develop fresh insights by examining cases where doping has been accidental, intrinsically motivated, non-performance enhancing or the result of prescribed medical treatments banned by anti-doping authorities. Such trends call into question the fairness of anti-doping measures, and we discuss the possibility of developing localised solutions to testing and sanctioning amateur athletes.
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