Drug abuse in sport

This book is an innovative and compelling work that develops a modified moral panic model illustrated by the drugs in sport debate.

Drug free sport is an unattainable aspiration.

Success in high performance sport is highly valued in today's world, with lucrative contracts, sponsorship deals, and opportunities for celebrity status balanced against substantial investments of time and energy, and high chances of failure.

Doping in Cycling: Interdisciplinary Perspectives provides an up-to-date overview of the knowledge about doping and anti-doping in the sport that has dominated doping headlines for at least two decades.

In a provocative analysis of sport ethics and human values, Genetically Modified Athletes imagines the brave new world of sport.

The second edition of Nutrition and Metabolism in Sports, Exercise and Health offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to sport and exercise nutrition, integrating key nutritional facts, concepts and dietary guidelines with a thorough discussion of the fundamental biological science underpinning physiological and metabolic processes.

Doping has become one of the most important and high-profile issues in contemporary sport.

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement.

Following the recent doping scandals that have brought the highest echelons of international sport into disrepute, this book examines the elitism at the core of the World Anti-Doping Agency and considers how the current World Anti-Doping Code might be restructured.

Nutritional Supplements in Sport, Exercise and Health is the most up-to-date and authoritative guide to dietary supplements, ergogenic aids and sports nutrition foods currently available.

This is the first book to draw together cutting-edge research on the psychological processes underlying doping use in sport and exercise, thereby filling an important gap in our understanding of this centrally important issue in contemporary sport.

The work of dope testers is constantly being obstructed by the development of ever harder-to-trace new forms of banned substances.

From turn-of-the-century horseracing to the monolithic anti-doping attitudes now supported by sporting organizations, the development of anti-doping ideology has spread throughout modern sport.

This book offers a new history of drug use in sport.

Why are fiberglass vaulting poles and hinged skates accepted in sport - while performance-enhancing drugs are forbidden?

Why do many athletes risk their careers by taking performance-enhancing drugs?

The book addresses a series of key aspects of contemporary anti-doping policy.

Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape is the astonishing biography of French cycling star Jacques Anquetil.

'I have success, money, women.

Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was is the first biography of Jan Ullrich, arguably the most naturally talented cyclist of his generation, and also one of the most controversial champions of the Tour de France.

On 26th July 2015, Chris Froome entered the record books.

An eye-opening expose of and a heart-breaking lament for professional cyclingPaul Kimmage's boyhood dreams were of cycling glory: wearing the yellow jersey, cycling the Tour de France, becoming a national hero.

***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all***One of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who shaped the decade' 'The biggest sports scandal the world has ever seen'In 2015, Russia's Anti-Doping Centre was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following revelations of an elaborate state-sponsored doping programme at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

-------------------------------On 8 July 1998 Festina team soigneur Willy Voet was stopped by the police.