ABSTRACT
Athletes are expected to bear most of the responsibility for taking medical drugs and supplements that are potentially performance enhancing, harmful, and/ or contrary to the spirit of sport, yet sports physicians are responsible to athletes for questions regarding anti-doping and medical care. The international federations have a duty to guide their athletes towards specialist sports physicians where this is possible, and where a higher duty of care can be expected. The athletes must be empowered by anti-doping education from national anti-doping organizations (NADOs) and international federations, to have the awareness that they should inform the physician of their fairly unique occupational needs and related governance. This chapter analyses four result management decisions by the Anti-doping Agency of Serbia and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) in 2010 which involved team doctors: one regarding an international Serbian handball player and three doping cases from FIBA.
