Drug Games: The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960

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Автор: Hunt Thomas M.
Название: Drug Games: The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960–2008
ISBN: 9780292737495
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация:

Злоупотребление наркотиками и психоактивными веществами: социальные аспекты

Индивидуальное и общественное здравоохранение

Олимпийские и Паралимпийские игры

Спортивные руководящие органы

ISBN-10: 0292737491
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 231
Вес: 0.34 кг.
Дата издания: 15.11.2011
Серия: Terry and jan todd series on physical culture and sports
Язык: English
Размер: 230 x 153 x 18
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Подзаголовок: The international olympic committee and the politics of doping, 1960-2008
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Поставляется из: Англии
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On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud Jensen, competing in that years Rome Olympic Games, suddenly fell from his bike and fractured his skull. His death hours later led to rumors that performance-enhancing drugs were in his system. Though certainly not the first instance of doping in the Olympic Games, Jensens death serves as the starting point for Thomas M. Hunts thoroughly researched, chronological history of the modern relationship of doping to the Olympics. Utilizing concepts derived from international relations theory, diplomatic history, and administrative law, this work connects the issue to global political relations.

During the Cold War, national governments had little reason to support effective anti-doping controls in the Olympics. Both the United States and the Soviet Union conceptualized power in sport as a means of impressing both friends and rivals abroad. The resulting medals race motivated nations on both sides of the Iron Curtain to allow drug regulatory powers to remain with private sport authorities. Given the costs involved in testing and the repercussions of drug scandals, these authorities tried to avoid the issue whenever possible. But toward the end of the Cold War, governments became more involved in the issue of testing. Having historically been a combined scientific, ethical, and political dilemma, obstacles to the elimination of doping in the Olympics are becoming less restrained by political inertia.

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Foreword by John Hoberman

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Defining the Problem

Chapter 2: Testing Begins

Chapter 3: Nationalism Strikes

Chapter 4: Old Problems and New Leadership