[...]... in sport, but it is an effort which, both in terms of improved understanding and in terms of responding more effectively to the policy issues involved, is one which is well worth making 2 The emergence of drug use as a problem in modern sport Sport, health and drugs Introduction In the aftermath of the drugs scandal in the 1998 Tour de France, Richard Williams, writing in The Guardian, correctly pointed... 2005: 29) The use of performance-enhancing substances within the sporting context is, then, a very longstanding phenomenon Attention is drawn to this fact not simply – in the way in which many authors seem routinely to make this point – out of antiquarian interest, but in order to clarify one aspect of the problem surrounding the ban on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport This aspect of the... context of elite sport in Chapter 7, but this is not our primary concern in this book Those who wish to examine these issues in more detail will find excellent starting points in the books by Monaghan (2001) and Lenehan (2003) Second, we need to draw attention to an important conceptual issue concerning our use of the terms ‘doping’ and the ‘use of performanceenhancing drugs Dunning and Waddington (2003:... surrounding sports medicine suggests that sports physicians are in the front line of the fight against drug use in sport, the reality, it is argued, is that sports medicine is actually one of the primary contexts within which performance-enhancing drugs have been developed and disseminated within the sporting community The book also offers a more general critical evaluation of existing antidoping policy in sport. .. motor racing and snooker, which were given extra time to find alternative sponsors The British ban was followed by an EU-wide ban on sponsorship of sporting events within the European Union, which came into effect in 2005 However, as tobacco advertising has been increasingly regulated within Europe, so tobacco companies have turned to sponsoring sporting events outside of Europe, particularly in emerging... physician Galen, writing in the third century BC, reported that athletes in Ancient Greece used stimulants to enhance their performance In Ancient Egypt athletes similarly had special diets and ingested various substances which, it was believed, improved their physical capabilities, whilst Roman gladiators and knights in mediaeval jousts used stimulants after sustaining injury to enable them to continue in. .. useful to differentiate between these terms and to apply them to two rather different ways in which drugs may be used to affect sporting performance’ The first of these relates to situations in which athletes knowingly take drugs with a view to enhancing their performance, or in which they inadvertently take them, for example by consuming a legitimate medication which also contains a performance-enhancing... performance-enhancing drugs in sport and ‘drug abuse’ within the wider society, it is almost certainly the case that, in modern Western societies, we have come to be more dependent on the use of prescribed drugs than at any previous time in history As we shall see in Chapter 5, the increasingly widespread acceptance of drugs in everyday life provides an essential part of the backcloth for understanding... Sponsorship of sporting events by tobacco companies has been widespread; sports which have been sponsored by tobacco companies in Britain in the last two decades include motor racing, power boat racing, cricket, speedway, snooker, darts, bowls, horse racing, tennis, rugby union, rugby league, basketball, badminton, show jumping, motor cycling and table tennis Sponsorship of sporting events by tobacco companies... upon reluctant sporting bodies In Britain, the incoming Labour government in May, 1997, announced its intention to legislate to ban the sponsorship of sports events by tobacco companies It is interesting to note that, rather than reporting this decision as good news in terms of health policy, some papers chose to report it as bad news for sport Thus The Times, for example, reported the story on its . Cataloging in Publication Data Waddington, Ivan. An introduction to drugs in sport : addicted to winning? / by Ivan Waddington and Andy Smith. p. cm. 1. Doping. 2009). An Introduction to Drugs in Sport Addicted to winning? Ivan Waddington and Andy Smith First edition published 2009 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton