Opinion: Why sport should allow doping
Editor’s Note: Ellis Cashmore is visiting professor of sociology at Aston University in England and the author of “Making Sense of Sports” The views expressed are solely those of the author and not representative of CNN. Yet we’ve been persuaded that sportsmen and women should be “clean” – ignoring perhaps their use of hypnotism, acupuncture, oxygen tents and any number of other performance aids that are not tainted by the label “drugs.” Baseball, cycling and swimming are among the major sports that have suffered the torments of the damned in recent years. — CNN Sports November 10, 2015 Established in 1999, it fails time after time to identify dopers – remember, even Armstrong never recorded a positive dope test. WADA must squirm when it hears how the London 2012 Olympics were “sabotaged” We are facing the prospect of extensive doping at the Olympic Games – without even considering other major events. Sport today bears little relation to the “Chariots of Fire” competition of the early 20th-century when it was a predominantly amateur affair and men competed for honor.
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