Inside Dope: How Drugs Are the Biggest Threat to Sports, Why You Should Care, and What Can Be Done About Them
The scandals break monthly, even weekly—athletes caught doping in a multitude of sports, and around the world. The doping spotlight has been shone on Olympic athletes for years, and now professional sports, leagues, and athletes can no longer hide in the shadows either.Leading the fight against doping in sports is Dick Pound, the chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Controversial, outspoken, and reviled by those he seeks to expose and bring to account, Pound istheauthority in the world on doping in sports.According to Pound, doping is “one of the most important and difficult problems that sport will have to overcome in the future.” It goes to the core of the ideals that we hold about sport, our heroes, and what parents want for their children. No longer an issue that can be ignored by any country or any sport, doping is a growing problem, extending far beyond the world of sports to touch on much broader social issues.Never shy of the issues or his critics, Pound takes on tough subjects inInside Dopewith his usual straight talk and candor, as well as a fiery passion for upholding the ideals of fair play in an intensely competitive environment.Inside Dopetackles the issue of doping in sports: why it has become such a problem; the role of big business and drug companies; the complicity of coaches, doctors and trainers; testing and the battle to stay ahead of the users; WADA as the world’s watchdog; setting standards and the future of doping and sports.At times damning, sometimes revealing, at others prescriptive, but always honest and outspoken,Inside Dopeis an important contribution to the debate on performance-enhancing drugs in sport and gives a rare inside view on the business, the personalities, and the issues behind the greatest challenge facing the world of sports.