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Inside Dope: How Drugs Are the Biggest Threat to Sports, Why You Should Care, and What Can Be Done About Them | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard W. Pound
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $32.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 531503
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 248
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0470837330
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.29088796
EAN: 9780470837337
ASIN: 0470837330
Publication Date: September 29, 2006
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Product Description
An IOC insider speaks out on creating a drug-free sports culture With doping charges leveled at athletes in baseball, cycling, and in the Olympics, cheating has, to many onlookers, become the norm in pro sports. With implications far beyond the sports arena, Inside Dope examines the genesis of doping in sports as well as in the world of doctors and trainers; drug testing and the battle to stay ahead of users; drug companies and big business; and the role of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) as watchdog. Written by a former Olympian, an IOC official, and a passionate advocate of fair play in sports, this eye-opening book takes a candid look at testing standards and the future of doping and sports and the larger issue of how doping affects the public perception of athletes.
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Bad September 3, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Little insight, boring writing and a lack of any intelligible point. Save your money on this overpriced collection of paper.
Inside Dope: Not even close July 29, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are interested in the wide-spread doping in professional (and amateur?) cycling, Pound's book doesn't even come close to an account that will inform, save for one point. Pound raises, albeit indirectly, the question for all professional atheletes: if one is to perform in order to win, and winning is the only consideration, then one has to chose to dope or run clean. Pound spends about 80% of the book sidestepping that issue while pontificating and lecturing from psuedo-case studies that are not really relevant to the cycling issues. The remaining 20% of the book was a lecture from an all-knowing elder who has never participated in cycling or running at a high level of competition: don't do this, don't do this, etc. I was interested in what Pound had to say at the beginning, but by the end I felt this book was a waste of time and money. I think Pound should stick to the WADA issues that could actually improve testing and oversight of all sport, specifically cycling.
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