New research dispels many of the myths Enhanced Games organisers are sprouting.
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These games should compel traditional sport to solve its fundamental problems and reflect upon the true value of sport and athletes.
Ostarine has become the most commonly detected Sarm in Wada laboratories, appearing in 114 athlete samples.
These drugs are shown to change the very structure and function of the heart.
The boom in women’s strength training has also led to an increase in steroid use. There are ways to turn this trend around, though.
Telling people to ‘just say no’ to drugs has never worked. Better education and awareness of the harms is key.
Crucially, testosterone supplements turn off its normal controls in the brain.
A plans for ‘Enhanced Games’ with no restrictions on performance-enhancing drugs would be bad for athletes and for sport itself.
A doctor and lifelong figure skater explains what was found in Valieva’s drug test, what effects the substances might have and how performance enhancements might benefit a figure skater.
And why doping cheats may never be caught.
There are concerns that performance-enhancing drug use is quickly becoming a public health crisis.
There is an urgent need to reconsider steroid use as a public health issue as opposed to a criminal justice concern.
While AI seems unstoppable, our improved understanding of human brains is levelling the playing field for now.
The ban on Russian athletes at the Rio Olympics feels like a victory, but it masks an insular system which is spread too thin.
Smart drugs are known to boost cognition in healthy people – but are they a form of cheating?
We have an intuitive bias against “artificial” drugs in favour of “natural” drugs, but that distinction is not only false, it is dangerous.
Having learned some hard lessons with the Essendon case, Australia should lead the way in developing a better approach to drug control and anti-doping in sport.
The current anti-doping regulation clearly isn’t working. Perhaps it is time to change our approach.
In sport, there seems no reasonable justification for drawing a line in the sand that places drug use on one side and the other performance enhancers on the other.
Organisers of the World Championship in Athletics will be on their toes after recent revelations of mass doping by endurance athletes. Here’s what you need to know about doping and how to evade it.
Top contributors
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Research Fellow in Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow in Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Alcohol and other drug specialist, UNSW
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Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics, National University of Singapore; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Business, UNSW-Canberra, UNSW
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Visiting Scholar, School of Business, CBR, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Cellular & Molecular Biology, Loughborough University
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Director, UC Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, University of Canberra
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Deputy Lead, School of Medicine, University of Lancashire
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PhD Candidate, Cardiovascular Physiology, Liverpool John Moores University