Tagged: performance enhancing drugs

Nicotine in sports: high use but little evidence of effects on performance - Guest Work

Guest Author • Aug 10, 2017 •

• athletes,
• doping,
• Nicotine,
• performance enhancing drugs,
• smokeless tobacco,
• Smoking,
• sports

By Toby Mündel, Massey University When you think nicotine, you probably think of smokers, addiction, carcinogens and disease – not elite athletes and sporting performance. However, our research published today shows that the use of nicotine among athletes is high and increasing. In some sports, up to half the team uses nicotine in various forms, mostly as … Read More

Ethics, doping, the Olympics and Russia - Guest Work

Guest Author • Aug 05, 2016 •

• Drugs,
• ethics doping,
• Olympic Games,
• Olympics,
• performance enhancing drugs,
• sports

By Prof Ian Culpan, Director of the New Zealand Centre for Olympic Studies, University of Canterbury. The recent scandal over the Russian doping situation and the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) subsequent decision regarding Russian athletes’ participation in the Olympic Games has created widespread interest, not only from those interested and/or committed to sport, but from the wider … Read More