ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the sense in which the notion of the fair play speaks not just to a moral feature that is widely thought pivotal to the conduct of sport, but widely thought pivotal to the conduct of American life in all its various forms - which goes a long way toward explaining why sport has the strong hold on the American national psyche that it does. It offers an analysis of fair play and discusses two of its most important strands, namely, fair play as a reciprocal regard for the interests of individual participants in sport, and fair play as what Robert Butcher and Angela Schneider aptly call 'respect for the game'. The chapter examines how the present anti-doping strategy adopted by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, following the lead of the World Anti-Doping Agency, undermines these two moral principles of the fair play.
