Should performance enhancing drugs be legal in sports?

Background
Anti-doping advocates assert that drugs undermine the spirit of sport, which is about pushing natural human limitations and playing within the rules. However, as sport becomes increasingly high-tech, what is 'natural' becomes harder to define. Defenders of doping also dispute the efficacy of drug enforcement, suggesting that anti-doping rules foster the opposite of fair play.

Agree

Experts In Philosophy :
Bennet Foddy Bioethics Researcher
Julian Savulescu Philosophy Professor
Agree
We will argue that performance enhancement is inevitable and unpoliceable, that it is not against the spirit of sport and that we should remove anti-doping legislation to permit safe performance enhancement. We should focus more on testing athletes’ health and fitness to compete.
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01 Jan 2007 Source

Experts In Sports :
Lincoln Allison Professor of Sports
Mostly Agree
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