The Balco Story How Reporting It Changed US Sports
10.11.2005
By Elliott Almond
The U.S. Balco affair consisted of a systematic and calculated method to circomvent sports drug testing rules by using sophisticated and oftentimes undetecable performance enhancing substances.
Elliott Almond spoke at the Play the Game 2005: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly about his analytical work and the Balco affair and its press coverage.
Every time a star athlete is tested positive for doping, it punctures the illusion of the moral of the game.
The Balco affair clearly made the world see the elite and the sport from a more critical angle.
Read the analytical paper on the Balco affair by Elliott Almond