Table 2.
Sport doping enabling environment via systematic doping.
Micro-environment | Macro-environment | |
---|---|---|
Physical | Labs/medical sites | Secure/safer supply |
Hygienic equipment | Inaccessible training camps, locations | |
Medical supervision, advice | Centrally organized distribution | |
Social | Normalization of use within group, team | Social and cultural norms and values |
Omerta | Stigmatisation/Marginalisation | |
Peer to peer knowledge | Internet information | |
Economic | Guaranteed sponsor/team/club contracts | Complicity of sponsors |
Health care costs covered | Event organizers’ passivity on testing | |
Policy | Team policies not enforced | Threshold testing methods |
Avoiding easy out of competition testing | (Mis)Use of therapeutic use exemptions | |
In and out of competition substances |