Parr Center Lecture: Tom Murray, on doping in sports

Good Sport: What just about everyone gets wrong about sport, ethics, and performance-enhancing drugs

Abstract:

We know that athletes use drugs to enhance their performance. We know that in almost all sports using performance-enhancing drugs is forbidden. Why do athletes use them despite the prohibitions and the sanctions if they’re caught? Anyway, what’s wrong with using PEDs in the first place? If everyone was allowed to use them, wouldn’t the competitions be just as fair?

Tom will answer these questions and explain what’s missing from the conversation: the reality of relentless pressure to not surrender any advantage to your competitors; and the values that give sport its meaning in our lives.