An Introduction to Drugs in Sport

Waddington, Ivan; Smith, Andy

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“…However, during the following decades, doping became widespread. This development ran parallel to other processes in elite sport, such as professionalisation, politicisation and commercialisation (Waddington & Smith, 2009). The fact that athletes used drugs did not have any negative effect on the commercialisation of elite sport.…”

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Doping in elite sport - do the fans care? Public opinion on the consequences of doping scandals

Solberg

Hanstad

Thøring

2010

International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship

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There are indications that commercial stakeholders are reluctant to associate with sports involved in doping scandals. A survey of 925 Norwegian sports consumers supports this reluctance, showing no tolerance for pure doping substances. The majority were in favour of tough responses to athletes and sports involved in doping. Older respondents were more negative towards doping. Those who were strongly interested in sport were more willing than others to accept doping.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Doping in elite sport - do the fans care? Public opinion on the consequences of doping scandals

Solberg

Hanstad

Thøring

2010

International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship

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“…Coaches, journalists and the broader sporting system of teams, leagues, administrators, broadcasters sponsors and commercial partners insist on what is (for most athletes) unsustainable levels of achievement, yet at the same time emphasise that failure is unacceptable. Disciplines such as elite cycling, for example, embrace cutting edge medical and scientific support, including essential contributions from physicians, support therapists, sport scientists, bio-mechanists and engineers (Brissonneau, 2006;Waddington and Smith, 2008). As a result of such pressures, athletes find themselves in a sporting environment where medical treatments and substances to enhance recovery and sustain performance are promoted as never before.…”

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Exploring the wicked problem of athlete and consumer vulnerability in sport

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Stavros

Smith

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Abstract• Purpose: This paper extends the literature on wicked problems in consumer research by exploring athlete and consumer vulnerability in sport and the potential role that social marketing can play in addressing this problem.• Design/methodology/approach: This paper conceptualises the wicked problem of athlete and consumer vulnerability in sport, proposing a multi-theoretical approach to social marketing, incorporating insights from stakeholder theory, systems theory and cocreation to tackle this complex problem.• Findings: Sport provides a rich context for exploring a social marketing approach to a wicked problem as it operates in a complex ecosystem with multiple stakeholders with differing, and sometimes conflicting, objectives. It is proposed that consumers, particularly those that are highly identified fans, are key stakeholders that have both facilitated the problematic nature of the sport system and been rendered vulnerable as a result. Further, a form of consumer vulnerability also extends to athletes as the evolution of the sport system has led them to engage in harmful consumption behaviours. Social marketing, with its strategic and multi-faceted focus on facilitating social good, is an apt approach to tackle behavioural change at multiple levels within the sport system.• Practical implications: Sport managers, public health practitioners and policymakers are given insight into the key drivers of a growing wicked problem as well as the potential for social marketing to mitigate harm.• Originality/value: This paper is the first to identify and explicate a wicked problem in sport. More generally it extends insight into wicked problems in consumer research by 2 examining a case whereby the consumer is both complicit in, and made vulnerable by, the creation of a wicked problem. This paper is the first to explore the use of social marketing in managing wicked problems in sport.

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“…However, such protests have, previously, been limited to particular sports, notably cycling, which has from the earliest days of professional cycling been characterized by a culture of acceptance of drug use (Waddington and Smith 2009 is perhaps surprising that it should also have accused the EU working Party -whose report is written throughout in very considered and restrained language -as being whether athletes simply have to accept that these are the rules of sport will depend partly on the judgement in the court case being brought by the 65 Belgian athletes.…”

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“…It is important to recognise that such unplanned outcomes are not unusual aspects of social life for, as Elias pointed out, the normal result of the complex interweaving of the goal-directed actions of large numbers of people includes outcomes which no-one has chosen and no-one has intended. In recent years, Elias's game models (Elias 1970) have been increasingly used to understand how the complexities of the policy process can generate unplanned outcomes, both within sport (Bloyce, Smith, Mead and Morris 2008, Hanstad, Smith and Waddington 2008, Murphy and Sheard 2008, Waddington and Smith 2009) and other policy areas (Dopson and Waddington 1996). Elias's game models have been outlined elsewhere (Dopson and Waddington 1996) and there is no need to repeat that theoretical discussion here, but it is worthwhile highlighting some of the major unplanned outcomes of the development and implementation of WADA's whereabouts policy.…”

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Surveillance and control in sport: a sociologist looks at the WADA whereabouts system

Waddington

2010

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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This file was dowloaded from the institutional repository Brage NIH -brage.bibsys.no/nih Waddington, I. (2010) Ivan WaddingtonNorwegian School of Sport Sciences Oslo, and University of Chester, UK.2 Surveillance and control in sport: a sociologist looks at the WADA whereabouts system. AbstractThis paper draws upon the sociology of Norbert Elias to examine some central aspects of the whereabouts system introduced by WADA as part of its anti-doping policies. More specifically, the paper aims to (i) locate the whereabouts system within

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An Introduction to Drugs in Sport

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Doping in elite sport - do the fans care? Public opinion on the consequences of doping scandals

Doping in elite sport - do the fans care? Public opinion on the consequences of doping scandals

Exploring the wicked problem of athlete and consumer vulnerability in sport

Surveillance and control in sport: a sociologist looks at the WADA whereabouts system

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