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Sport and Drugs: An example of deviant behaviour?
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Ethics in Sport Sport and Drugs: An example of deviant behaviour? Vic Kerton -University of Gloucestershire Introduction The use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport is only one example of what appears to be an increase in deviant behaviour in sport over the last 40 years. Other examples of deviant behaviour, where participants attempt to gain an unacceptable unfair advantage over their competitors, include the 'professional foul', intentional disregard for the rules and the use of modern technology. Advantages are also obtained by social and economic position and by rights of birth but these advantages are not considered unfair. For example should people who happen to live in a mountainous environment be banned from Winter Olympic events because they have an advantage over lowland people? Should Africans who have an advantage over lowland people in distance events because they live their lives at altitude be banned from these events? Should those people born with...
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