Comment: Sport is huge business and the influence of the underworld is getting greater by the year. The threat is so acute that it needs to be addressed head on, argues David Howman, Director General of WADA, in the fifth contribution to Play the Game’s comment series on corruption in sport.

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Comment: In this second contribution to Play the Game’s exclusive comment series on corruption in sport leading up to the Play the Game 2011 conference, Thomas Bach, Vice-President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), highlights the need to protect sport, which integrity, credibility and reputation are threatened by doping, corruption and manipulation of competitions.

There is a lack of new ideas on how anti-doping efforts can be improved, WADA’s Director-General warned at a doping conference in Aarhus, Denmark where it was also discussed whether the doping fight is moving into a dead end.

Comment: It is worth considering if the polluter-pays principle could be used in sport as a tool against doping, hooliganism, corruption and other forms of inappropriate behaviour, argues Jean-Loup Chappelet in this comment article.

Knowledge bank article:
Over a good many years I have consistently argued that if we wish to understand patterns of drug use in sport then we need to examine the central role of sports physicians in the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

There has hardly been a major drugs scandal in which sports physicians have not been central actors. If we wish to understand patterns of drug use in sport then we need to examine the central role of sports physicians in the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Greg LeMond is again speaking out against doping and Lance Armstrong, much like he did at the Play the Game Conference in 2009.