Table of Contents

How drug testing fails - the politics of doping control; what is doping and how is it detected? comparative analysis of doping scandals - Canada, Russia, and China; doping in elite swimming - a case study of the modern era from 1970 forward; doping an moral authority - sport organisations today; an ethical analysis of drug-testing; difficulties in estimating the prevalence of drug use; drugs, sport and national identity in Australia; Lousanne Doping Conference; difficulties in estimating the prevalence of drug use among elite athletes.

About the Author

Wayne Wilson, PhD, is vice president of research for the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles. He conceived and organized the 1998 conference Doping in Elite Sport, which this book is based on.

Wilson, the author of numerous articles on the Olympic movement, was the cowriter and executive producer of the CD-ROM An Olympic Journey: The Story of Women in the Olympic Games. Since 1990, he has edited a series of research reports published by the Amateur Athletic Foundation on race, gender, and the sports media.

He is a member of the North American Society for Sport History and the Research Council of the Olympic Studies Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Currently residing in Los Angeles, Wilson enjoys cross-country skiing and traveling with his family.

Edward Derse is senior producer for World Sports at FOXSports.com, where he is responsible for strategy, development, and production for international and Olympic sports coverage. He was previously the research director for the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles. He also serves as vice president of the International Sepaktakraw Federation.

Derse has written or edited four books on coaching and training methods. His articles have appeared in several magazines covering a variety of sports. He also is the sports business analyst for Marketplace, a business news show airing on public radio stations across the United States.

Derse lives in Santa Monica, California and is an avid surfer.