Performance‐Enhancing Drugs, Paternalism, Meritocracy, and Harm to Sport

Dixon, Nicholas

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9833.2008.00423.x

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“…But, in contrast, coaches who spent more hours coaching reported that higher scores with a tendency to agree that a lifetime ban for a second doping violation was too harsh. This conclusion could be a result of several factors (Dixon, 2008). Participants in the present study could: (1) consider PED and/or supplement use unnecessary because they are happy with their athletes level of performance, regardless of who close to them might use or condone, their use;…”

Section: Ped Responses By Coaching Hours Per Weekmentioning

confidence: 92%

Taking Strides Toward Prevention-Based Deterrence: USATF Coaches Perceptions of PED Use and Drug Testing

Judge

Bellar

Petersen³

et al. 2010

Journal of Coaching Education

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As national anti-doping organizations (NADOs) adopt preventative measures to complement detection-based deterrence methods, understanding coaches’ attitudes toward drugs in sport will take on a new importance. This study was conducted to measure coaches’ attitudes in the sport of track and field toward performance enhancing drug (PED) use and drug testing. A total of 254 track and field coaches (Age: 33.4 yrs ±9.7) completed a 51-item survey. Coaches who were certified reported they felt more knowledgeable about PED use (rs = .168, p = .004) and that they had learned about PED use and testing through the USA Track and Field (USATF) coaches education program (rs = .220, p < .001). USATF certified coaches also reported a stronger perception that the coach plays a key role in PED deterrence (rs = .158, p = .006). These findings suggest that national sport governing bodies (NGBs) like USATF have taken significant steps to educate prospective coaches on the topic of PED’s and drug testing and these measures have positively impacted coaches.

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Section: Ped Responses By Coaching Hours Per Weekmentioning

confidence: 92%

Taking Strides Toward Prevention-Based Deterrence: USATF Coaches Perceptions of PED Use and Drug Testing

Judge

Bellar

Petersen³

et al. 2010

Journal of Coaching Education

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“…While a constitutive rule might tell us something about the number of participants allowed on the field of play at a given time, such rules seem to be more properly understood as proscribing how the game will proceed. 7 A person who takes 4 For some of the philosophical discussion of whether we should ban PEDs see: (Chwang 2012;Dixon 2008;Gleaves 2010;Kious 2008;Savulescu and Foddy 2011;Simon 2010) 5 I have chosen four white males from the US and Democratic politicians in an attempt to lower the number of potential confounding factors. 6 I do not have time to examine all of the potential dimensions of rule-breaking or cheating here, but will restrict myself to a couple examples.…”

Section: Cheating and The Norms Of Sportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who? Moral Condemnation, PEDs, and Violating the Constraints of Public Narrative

Gendreau

2014

Ethic Theory Moral Prac

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Despite the numerous instances of PED use in professional sports, there continues to be a strong negative moral response to those athletes who dope. My goal is to offer a diagnosis of this response. I will argue that we do not experience such disdain because these athletes have broken some constitutive rule of sport, but because they have lied about who they are. In violating the constraints of their own public narratives, they make both themselves and their choices unintelligible. This worry becomes especially profound as we care greatly about who our athletes are. Using cases from both athletics and US politics, I argue that certain kinds of lies so violate our understanding of who a person is that we can no longer recognize them as the person we took them to be. Fundamentally, I believe that PED users have lied about something central to their public narratives. I develop this view through an examination of narrative identity, primarily focusing on J. David Velleman's work on agency and self-constitution. I do not claim that the athlete using steroids is nonidentical to who she would be in the absence of steroid use, but that through use of PEDs, she has misled us about an important component of her pubic narrative and this is difficult for us to reconcile. Ultimately, this has implications for sport as well as other other aspects of human social life.

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“…In fair, universal and classless sport, the 'true, natural order' is allowed to prevail, whereas daily life is replete with false hierarchies of privilege and deprivation, protectionism and discrimination which deeply obscure our view of who merits what she has and who doesn't. Within the splendid isolation of the sports arena, organizers should ensure that all participants enjoy an "equal opportunity to perform" (Loland 2009, 163) insofar as it is logistically feasible (Dixon 2008). The closer we come to reaching this ideal of the 'fair opportunity principle' (Loland 2009, 163), the more likely it becomes that the intrinsically most deserving person wins: irrelevant inequalities are equalized, so that the relevant inequalities can make (most of) the difference.…”

Section: Individual Surpassing Dopingmentioning

confidence: 99%

May the Blessed Man Win: A Critique of the Categorical Preference for Natural Talent over Doping as Proper Origins of Athletic Ability

Bonte¹,

Sterckx²,

Pennings³

2014

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

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Performance‐Enhancing Drugs, Paternalism, Meritocracy, and Harm to Sport

Cited by 12 publications

References 8 publications

Taking Strides Toward Prevention-Based Deterrence: USATF Coaches Perceptions of PED Use and Drug Testing

Taking Strides Toward Prevention-Based Deterrence: USATF Coaches Perceptions of PED Use and Drug Testing

Who? Moral Condemnation, PEDs, and Violating the Constraints of Public Narrative

May the Blessed Man Win: A Critique of the Categorical Preference for Natural Talent over Doping as Proper Origins of Athletic Ability

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