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dc.contributor.authorOverbye, Marieen_UK
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-05T21:52:14Z-
dc.date.available2016-10-05T21:52:14Z-
dc.date.issued2016-02en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/24364-
dc.description.abstractDoping testing is a key component enforced by anti-doping authorities to detect and deter doping in sport. Policy is developed to protect athletes’ right to participate in doping-free sport; and testing is a key tool to secure this right. Accordingly, athletes’ responses to anti-doping efforts are important. This article explores how the International Standards for Testing, which face different interpretations and challenges when policy is implemented, are perceived by elite athletes. Particularly, this article aims to investigate how elite athletes perceive the functioning of the testing system (i.e., the efforts of stakeholders involved in testing) in their own sport both nationally and worldwide. Moreover, it seeks to identify whether specific factors such as previous experience of testing and perceived proximity of doping have an impact on athletes’ perceptions of the testing system. The study comprises a web-based questionnaire (N = 645; response rate 43%) and uses qualitative findings to elaborate on and explain quantitative results. Results showed that two-thirds of the athletes reported the national testing programme in their sport to be appropriate. A majority of the athletes who had an opinion on the subject regarded testing programmes in some countries as not extensive enough or believed that in certain countries doping control was downgraded to win medals. Past experience of testing seemed to have a positive influence on trust in the concrete measures; however, if athletes experienced flaws during the control procedures, this could increase distrust and cause worry. The proximity of doping in an athlete’s sport influenced the athlete’s perception of the testing system. Particularly, athletes who need the testing system to be effective and to function well across the world show greater distrust of or dissatisfaction with the current testing system. The athletes’ diverging views indicate that contemporary anti-doping policy is simultaneously met with support, (dis)trust and frustration. By integrating the views and experiences of Danish elite athletes, this study confirms that the current testing system is confronted with obstacles, and it contributes knowledge about some of the challenges WADA faces when policy is implemented. Implications of results and recommendations for anti-doping authorities are outlined in the paper.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.relationOverbye M (2016) Doping control in sport: An investigation of how elite athletes perceive and trust the functioning of the doping testing system in their sport. Sport Management Review, 19 (1), pp. 6-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smr.2015.10.002en_UK
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dc.subjectWorld Anti-Doping Codeen_UK
dc.subjectAnti-doping policyen_UK
dc.subjectDeterrenceen_UK
dc.subjectElite athletesen_UK
dc.subjectSurveyen_UK
dc.subjectInterviewsen_UK
dc.titleDoping control in sport: An investigation of how elite athletes perceive and trust the functioning of the doping testing system in their sporten_UK
dc.typeJournal Articleen_UK
dc.rights.embargodate2999-12-31en_UK
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dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.smr.2015.10.002en_UK
dc.citation.jtitleSport Management Reviewen_UK
dc.citation.issn1441-3523en_UK
dc.citation.volume19en_UK
dc.citation.issue1en_UK
dc.citation.spage6en_UK
dc.citation.epage22en_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusPublisheden_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedRefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusVoR - Version of Recorden_UK
dc.author.emailmarie.overbye@stir.ac.uken_UK
dc.citation.date30/11/2015en_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationSporten_UK
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000370092800002en_UK
dc.identifier.scopusid2-s2.0-84957455405en_UK
dc.identifier.wtid550151en_UK
dc.contributor.orcid0000-0003-4066-6360en_UK
dc.date.accepted2015-10-14en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2015-10-14en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2016-10-05en_UK
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local.rioxx.projectInternal Project|University of Stirling|https://isni.org/isni/0000000122484331en_UK
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