1. What is Doping?
This unit sets the context for doping and anti-doping in sport by defining is the terms and documenting the history of doping including the subsequent development of anti-doping into what is now the global fight against doping. A key principle that underpins anti-doping is that of strict liability whereby the athlete is responsible for what enters their body, regardless of intention.
Table of Contents:
- Definition of Doping
- History of Doping and Anti-Doping
- Early Years of Doping
- First Attempts
- Tests Begin to Work
- New Challenges
- Future Challenges – Gene Doping
- United Efforts
- Creation of WADA
- Supplementary Information
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Strict Liability
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Lausanne Declaration on Doping in Sport
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