What is doping?
Doping is the deliberate or inadvertent use by an athlete of a substance or method banned by a relevant sporting organisation. “Anti-Doping Rule Violations” are defined in the World Anti-Doping Code and include things such as refusing a test, tampering with a sample, trafficking, assisting others to dope and so on.
Doping refers to the use of performance-enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids or stimulants, particularly those that are forbidden by the organizations IOC/WADA that regulate competitions. Another form of doping is blood doping, either by blood transfusion or use of the hormone EPO (erythropoietin). Also considered “doping” by many, is the use of substances that mask other forms of doping. In recent years, gene doping has been reported as being an emerging form of doping. Gene doping would be very difficult to detect as well as permanent and irreversible.
“Doping contravenes the ethics of both sport and medical science…. doping consists of the administration of substances belonging to prohibited classes of pharmacological agents or the use of various prohibited methods or both” International Olympic Committee (IOC) Questions & Answers Welcome to Questions & Answers, which is a forum for you to ask a question relating to sports nutrition, drugs, medicines and supplements in sport, and we will endeavour to answer it.
