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Spitting In The Soup

Inside the Dirty Game of Doping in Sports

By (author) Mark Johnson
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Simon And Schuster Group USA, Boulder, United States
Imprint: Velopress
Published: 1st Jul 2016
Dimensions: w 163mm h 228mm d 43mm
Weight: 770g
Interest age: From 18 to 80 years
ISBN-10: 1937715272
ISBN-13: 9781937715274
Barcode No: 9781937715274
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Synopsis
Doping is as old as organized sports. From baseball to horse racing, cycling to track and field, drugs have been used to enhance performance for 150 years. For much of that time, doping to do better was expected. It was doping to throw a game that stirred outrage. Today, though, athletes are vilified for using performance-enhancing drugs. Damned as moral deviants who shred the fair-play fabric, dopers are an affront to the athletes who don't take shortcuts. But this tidy view swindles sports fans. While we may want the world sorted into villains and victims, putting the blame on athletes alone ignores decades of history in which teams, coaches, governments, the media, scientists, sponsors, sports federations, and even spectators have played a role. The truth about doping in sports is messy and shocking because it holds a mirror to our own reluctance to spit in the soupthat is, to tell the truth about the spectacle we crave. In Spitting in the Soup, sports journalist Mark Johnson explo

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