When trying to determine how best to deter doping in competitive sports, who better to ask than the athletes themselves? A first-of-its-kind study in Frontiers in Psychology did precisely that by asking top level German cyclists ...
Oct 16, 2018
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The use of banned drugs and substances and other prohibited practices – doping – has been a problem at the elite levels of cycling for a very long time. There is evidence now that doping happens in amateur levels of cycling ...
Feb 5, 2016
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Earlier this month the 11th annual CrossFit Games took place in the US. While the event has come a long way from humble beginnings, the prizemoney and fame now attached to it have led to concerns that competitors may be doping ...
Aug 29, 2017
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Physical doping and brain doping apparently often go hand in hand. A study from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Eberhard Karls University in Tubingen revealed that people who engage in physical doping often ...
Jan 13, 2014
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New research from the University of Adelaide shows that the probability of finding doping cheats in sport is so low, and the cost of testing so high, that sports authorities cannot hope to make any major inroads into the ...
Jul 26, 2013
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Elite athletes can be persuaded not to take banned substances—either by appealing to their sense of morality or educating them about the risks of using performance-enhancing drugs, according to a new study.
Dec 2, 2020
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How top athletes from across the world define clean sport—and their views on how cheating affects them—has been explored in an international study that could help develop more effective, targeted anti-doping education.
May 13, 2021
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Athletes using legal performance enhancing and medical sport supplements are more likely to dope than those using sport foods and superfoods, a new study reveals.
Oct 8, 2020
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Pressure to be perfect from parents makes young male athletes positive about doping, research from the University of Kent shows.
Feb 25, 2016
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Despite the glitz and glory of Usain Bolt's comeback victories and Jessica Ennis-Hill's heptathlon triumph at the World Championships, 2015 is shaping up as quite the annus horribilis for athletics.
Sep 1, 2015
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