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1. Introduction -- 2. The Cultural History and Digitalisation of Doping -- 3. Community Trajectories within the Online Doping Ecosystem -- 4. Digital Doping Bodies and Diversities -- 5. Tales from a Women-only Forum -- 6. Masculinities between Fantasy and The Real — "Falling Down the Rabbit Fuck Hole" -- 7. Transcending Online and Offline Doping -- 8. Conclusions – The "Cyborgification" of the Doping Phenomenon.

"How does power work in sport, especially when there seems to be no one enforcing unspoken rules? One way of analyzing power is through the concept of hegemony - a soft form of power exercised through consent rather than force, through ongoing interaction between the powerful and powerless to produce common sense understandings of society and culture. This book focuses on how hegemony works, particularly in sport, to understand how power, dominance, and resistance may manifest in different ways within a variety of sport contexts, in theory and practice. It also discusses how hegemony can work within sport and how dominance and power are maintained - as well as sometimes being challenged or resisted. Through discussions to help students develop tools for analyzing issues of power and empirical examples that show how various concepts can bring a deepened understanding of sport and society, this book gives insight into hegemony in sport"--

A gripping, provocative history of doping in sports-packed with examples-that proposes a new emphasis for modern anti-doping efforts. Why is doping a perennial problem for sports? Is this solely a contemporary phenomenon? And should doping always be regarded as cheating, or do today's anti-doping measures go too far? Drawing on case studies from the early twentieth century to the present day, Doping: A Sporting History explores why the current anti-doping system looks as it does, charting its origins to the founding of the modern Olympic Games. From interwar notions of sporting purity to the postwar stimulant crisis, what seemed an easily resolvable problem soon became an impossible challenge as the pharmacology improved, the policy system stuttered, and Cold War politics allowed doping to flourish. The late twentieth century saw the creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency, but has the intensity of these global measures led to unintended harms?

The interwoven histories of sports and fitness doping -- Trajectories, cultural recalibration, and contextual mobility -- Women's gender-bending in man-spreading cultures -- Sex, drugs, and muscles : "Welcome to Planet Porno" -- Anti-doping : producing health or harm?

The Nobel Peace Prize can be viewed as an instrument of international moral suasion. This article asks how much, if at all, the Prize encourages authoritarian regimes to liberalize when awarded to dissident democratic activists. Using comparative case analysis of Burma and East Timor, it studies patterns in media coverage and in sanctions and aid policies imposed on the two countries' regimes by important international actors. The Prize awards seem not to have encouraged political liberalization in any obvious way. They did raise international awareness of the two countries' situations, but did not clearly increase outside pressures on the regimes. Adapted from the source document.

Doping and the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) are often considered and discussed as a separate issue from other types of substance use, by sporting bodies, politicians, the media, and athletes who use drugs themselves. However, perceptions and understandings of substance use in the sport and fitness world are directly related to those of substance use in the non-sport world. One way the gap between sport and non-sport substance use research can be bridged is to consider sport risk and enabling environments. Similar to non-sport contexts and drug use, it is important to analyse the environments in which doping occurs. This approach allows us to examine the dynamic interplay between risk and enabling factors, as the enabling environment shifts in response to changes produced in the risk environment, and vice versa. There are models of sport environments that have proven effective at both enabling doping by athletes and reducing harms to athletes: systematic doping. This article will use secondary literature in order to review and analyse known cases of systematic doping through the risk and enabling environment frameworks. We argue that these systems responded to anti-doping in ways that protected athletes from the risk factors established by anti-doping policy and that athletes suffered most when these systems were revealed, exposing athletes to the full range of doping harms. Further, we argue that risks within these systems (i.e. extortion, bullying) resulted from the broader prohibitive sport environment that forces doping underground and allows such abuses to occur.

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on sport in Sweden / Johan R. Norberg, Daniel Svensson, Alexander Jansson, and Susanna Hedenborg -- Gegenpressing : the Bundesliga's tactical response to the Covid-19 lockdown / Austin Duckworth -- For the good of the game? : resolving an existential crisis in Scottish football / Stephen Morrow -- When the far-right meets a pandemic : Covid-19, Brazilian football league and social controversies in the era of Bolsonaro / Hoyoon Jung -- From social distancing to social inclusion : the frustrations and friendships of women's cricket during the pandemic / Peter Evans -- The impact of Covid-19 on horseracing in Britain / Laura Donnellan -- Adapting sports entertainment to the lockdown : World Wrestling Entertainment, the modification of performance practices, and the logic of capitalism during the Covid-19 pandemic / Martin Reiter -- Baseball, CPBL, and Taiwanese nationalism in the time of Covid-19 / Daniel Yu-Kuei Sun -- Horseracing and football in the time of Covid-19 : a tale of two sports in Hong Kong / Tobias Zuser -- Covid-19 crisis response : did Australian professional sport move fast enough? / Michelle O'Shea, Hazel Maxwell, and Sarah Duffy -- Impact and implications of Covid-19 and lockdown on India's sports ecosystem / Balbier Singh Aulakh -- Why the NBA shut down first : how partisan polarization informs sports and public health / Andrew M. Lindner and Daniel N. Hawkins -- The impact of the Covid-19 crisis and the robustness of Dutch sport clubs / Resie Hoeijmakers and Jan-Willem van der Roest -- "Stay fit to fight the virus" : ethnographies of change in the world of fitness instructors (selected case studies) / Dominika Czarnecka -- Coaching without sports : strategies used by youth sport coaches from underserved communities to foster development during Covid-19 / William R. Falcão, Sebastien Arcand, and Fabrice Vil -- Four South Australian local sport participants' perspectives on the Covid-19 pandemic / Connor MacDonald -- The trailblazing woman on the Japanese Olympic Committee who called for postponement / Robin Kietlinski -- The observance of Ramadan in the United Arab Emirates sport industry during the Covid-19 lockdown / Leonardo José Mataruna-Dos-Santos and Mohammed Sayeed Khan -- The Philippines : filling the sports page with nostalgia in a pandemic-abbreviated sSeason / Severino R. Sarmenta Jr. -- What do sports networks broadcast when there are no live games? : a study of China's CCTV-5 sports channel during the Covid-19 pandemic / Zesheng Yang and Han Gao -- "This too shall pass" : Gaelic Games, Irish media and the Covid-19 lockdown in Ireland / Seán Crosson and Marcus Free -- The Covid-19 time out : our opportunity to design a new game plan for sport in Canada / Jennifer Walinga.

"In the edited collection, Time Out: Global Perspectives on Sport and the Covid-19 Lockdown, practitioners and international scholars explore the impact of the global Covid-19 health pandemic on sport from a global perspective. It is part of a two-volume Covid-19 and Sport series that tackles the effects of the global lockdown on sport during March and April 2020, when restrictions were at their most severe and the human toll at its peak in many countries. The twenty chapters provide a comprehensive overview of the immediate consequences of the Covid-19 lockdown on global sport from a variety of perspectives"--