Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | Doping in sport is a complex problem. A large part of the problem is due to the intense emotion it generates, together with the commercial importance attaching today to human and animal performance in sport. The other factor that makes study of the problem so difficult is that the scale of artificial procedures, both chemical and psychological, by which performance can be assisted, grows year by year. Besides repressive action, which is legally inevitable but has little effect, the only useful means of combatting these practices seems to be information from and to the athletes themselves and from various sporting and administrative organisations. A coach, whether paramedical or not, properly convinced as to the ineffectiveness and as to the real dangers of doping, is less likely to advise them, and athletes themselves, officially warned of the risks as well as the relative inefficiency of the various practices, would be less tempted to use them. |
