Fastest, highest, strongest : a critique of high-performance sport / Rob Beamish and Ian Ritchie.

Explores the use of drugs and other performance-enhancing practices in sport, tracing the development of the situation through its socio-political history. This work presents a critique of the use of athletes as representatives of political regimes, and the constant striving for medals that has alte...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Beamish, Rob
Other Authors:	Ritchie, Ian, 1964-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; London : Routledge, 2006.
Series:	Routledge critical studies in sport.
Subjects:	Doping in sports. Olympics. Anabolic steroids. Sports > Psychological aspects.