ABSTRACT
The chapter describes the definition of doping and the current state of policy flux in anti-doping, then it sets out the extant and the proposed criteria for a substance for doping. It reviews one bioethical critique of the spirit of sport criterion and a recent challenge by an internationally recognized group of scholars and scientists working of anti-doping to remove the criterion. The chapter discusses the narrative data from key actors on the international scene of anti-doping such as heads of national anti-doping organizations (NADO), medicine and science in anti-doping organizations and senior members of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). There has been much discussion at academic conferences and among sports policy makers with respect to the role of anti-doping. In a recent publication, members of the network led by Professor Ivan Waddington, a medical and sports sociologist, appealed to the WADA to remove the spirit of sport criterion, and retain the focus on cheating in sport qua doping.
