ABSTRACT
The integration of drugs with modern sport compels the management of risks arising from that integration. Risk management of drugs in sport can be broadly divided into two categories. The first is the attempt to manage the relationship sport has with drugs in terms of the classification system offered in Chapter 2. The second is the need to manage the risks introduced by the anti-doping policy. Anti-doping forces sports managers to strategise both the role of drugs and anti-doping compliance in their programmes. Anti-doping also introduces resourcing dilemmas for sports programme operations (e.g. investing in anti-doping education). How risk and risk management are understood has changed considerably over time. The meaning of risk changed from ‘chance to danger’ as part of a general cultural evolution in the understanding of the term. This transition emerged from early work mathematising gambling probabilities in the seventeenth century, to marine insurance in the eighteenth century to an economic understanding of risk in the nineteenth century (Douglas, 1990). The rational understanding of risk and risk management has since become entrenched in science and manufacturing (Douglas, 1990, p. 2), leading to a proliferation of socially and politically motivated definitions, research and tools (Beck, 1992) designed to inform management of risk across market sectors. Within sport, risk management has been applied to managing sports-related health risks (e.g. Fuller & Drawer, 2004; Fuller, Junge, & Dvorak, 2012), operational risk management (Appenzeller, 2012) and event risk management (e.g. Hanstad, 2012; Leopkey & Parent, 2009).
