What is so bad about doping in sports?

With all the information, attention, and debate over performance-enhancing drugs (or PEDs), many people want to further understand how performance-enhancing drugs affect one's body. It's an important area of concern for athletes and at the foundation of why USADA and other anti-doping organizations exist. read more

When you ask why doping is so bad for sports, ask yourself if people should be required to put their lives on the line as a condition of participation. Ask if people should be required to have long term negative health consequences. read more

BBC Sport explains what it means, why it has become a hot topic, what the types of doping are and what is being done to tackle it. read more

Doping became so prevalent in Olympic sport that some argued that all records should be discarded or put on hold until all forms of doping could be detected and stopped. Through the 1980s and 1990s, clandestine doping programs spread from sport to sport guided by modern, albeit unethical, pharmacists and sports medicine professionals. read more