Anti-doping laboratories have historically worked well, but the anti-doping organisations themselves lack oversight.
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The Russian people need to show the world a different side to the scandal-struck country when the World Cup kicks off.
Scandal-plagued FIFA says it’s committed to reform. Changing the way World Cup hosts are selected would be a start.
Athletes have, on occasion, mounted successful defences of sabotage in doping cases.
The politics of Russia’s Olympic doping ban.
In these Olympics more than most, there is less global attention on the medal count than on who will win the politics.
Doping scandals have dominated the build-up to the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.
A delicate truce between North and South Korea has been reached in the run up to the Winter Olympics. It’s a high profile win for an event which is struggling to remain relevant.
The ban on Russia competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics is unique: it is directly linked to the country’s lack of sporting integrity.
Paralympians are being hailed as inspirational. This doesn’t please everyone.
Doping simply gives athletes an advantage that can be compared to other forms of training regimes. So why the moral outrage?
The IOC will allow Russian athletes to compete in Rio 2016 if they’ve been cleared by their respective international sporting federation of doping. Should other countries pull out of the games?
As technology becomes fully integrated into our everyday lives, we may see athletes as the last vestiges of our humanity.
The scandal of systematic doping orchestrated by Russian government agencies and the Russian anti-doping body (RUSADA), involving the disposal of thousands of biological samples or their replacement with…
Only a better understanding of what drives doping can improve enforcement. To do so, we must break with the perception of doping as an individual or moral problem.
The International Olympic Committee will allow Russians wanting to compete in the Rio 2016 Olympics the chance to do so if they can prove they’re clean to their sports federation.
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Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Sport and Geopolitical Economy, SKEMA Business School
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Research Associate, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Murdoch University
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Sociologue, directeur de recherche au CNRS (CSO), Sciences Po
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LSE Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Reader in Sports Management and Development, Brunel University London
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Professor, Newcastle University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Leisure Policy, The University of Edinburgh
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PhD Candidate Examining Large-Scale Sporting Events in Russia, University of Manchester
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Lecturer in Public Management, University of York
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor in Law, Dublin City University
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
