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Drug Games - The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960-2008 (Paperback)
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Drug Games - The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960-2008 (Paperback)
Series: Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
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On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud
Jensen, competing in that year's 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,
Jensen's death serves as the starting point for Thomas M. Hunt's
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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