Doping in sport and the sociological aspect of it

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SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECT OF DOPING IN SPORTS

Introduction

Sports have become a very important aspect of healthy living entertainment and a means of making a living . All athletes who are engaged in sports aim at winning hence the need to improve performance leads to doping . Doping which allows athletes to use performance enhancing substances in sports has been there for a long time . Many sports men and women have been taking performance - enhancing agents to enable them win victory (Woodland , pg .8 . For example , a

cocktail of strychnine and alcohol was as early as the 1900s by athletes as a doping agent . By 1960s , anti-doping control methods were introduced with the assistance of an academic pharmacist Arnold Beckett . Despite the fact that doping has adverse effects on the health of the athletes and undermines the spirit of fair competition , many athletes have continued to take performance enhancing agents (Lippi , Franchini , and Guidi pg .97 . This has made it necessary for modern anti-doping methods to be developed to effectively combat doping . There are various reasons why athletics get involved in doping . This will evaluate the sociological aspect of doping in sports

Discussion

There have been numerous calls from the public and the sport organizing authorities to protect sports from doping because it continues to undermine sports as an institution . Cases of doping in athletes have confirmed how doping increasingly becoming common in athletes is . For example , the televised death of Tommy Simpson , a British cyclist played an...