ABSTRACT
The idea of harmonising approaches to (anti)-doping has been associated with sport governance almost since its inception in the early 1960s, though it is only since the 1980s that there has been such enthusiasm for it. The harmonisation argument holding the most significant challenge to the success of anti-doping policy is the process of ensuring that the many sporting institutions are in agreement about methods of testing and sanctioning. Consequently, the most important ambition in anti-doping is ensuring that every institution is working to the same ends, rather than questioning the fundamental justification for prohibition or acceptance at all. As such, the process of philosophising about the acceptability of doping is beyond question; anti-doping is necessarily anti.
