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The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport Conversation With Paul Dimeo

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Modern anti-doping is in crisis. The central institution in charge of the effort, WADA, has lost confidence among national anti-doping agencies like USADA as well as athletes. While the heyday of performance enhancing drug (PED) use is over, problems remain. Among best estimates, PED usage remains high. Efforts aimed at ‘clean sport’ have caused an assortment of harms to athletes, be it reputational harm, privacy invasion, financial hardship and more.

Is there a way to limit PED use in sports without a zero tolerance prohibitive approach that causes backlash? Dr. Paul Dimeo of the University of Stirling thinks so. In his new book ‘The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport, he and co-author Verner Møller argue things have gone too far. Instead of punitive, zero tolerance approach, they offer a new set of solutions to curb PED use and penalize those caught, but focus on strategies that take the rights of athletes seriously.

In this interview, Dimeo and I discuss the book, what he makes of the case of Jon Jones and oral Turinabol, how anti-doping institutions have lost the trust of the sporting public, and much more.

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  2. Your description in the first 30 seconds of this video regarding intellectual content is precisely what sets you apart from most other journalists.

  6. Nevada State Athletic Commission and California State Athletic Commission both heard Jon Jones (he was there in person yesterday in Vegas) his attorneys and USADA experts, considering both of these authorities have access to the best specialists/scientists in this field as consultants, instead of revoking, they actually granted Jones his license and they concluded that Jones was clean and what was found was insignificant residuals from the past. End of story!

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