Why was Marian Jones found guilty?
Yes, because she used a certain drug (tetrahydrogestinone) to enhance her performance. Any prohibited method used to enhance the performance of a player comes under the general term DOPING.
This includes,
Usage of drugs
Blood doping
In future gene doping
Doping is considered as unethical due to two reasons,
1) Doping is harmful to the player
2) To maintain a fair play
Doping is first reported as the abuse of testosterone by the weight lifters. They suffered from many side effects. Later different anabolic steroids came into play with fewer side effects. But none of these drugs are perfect. Sometimes salbutamol can be used as a performance enhancing drug and it is also prohibited.
Blood doping is the transfusion of blood few hours before the game or increasing the red cell production by increasing the blood erythropoietin levels. This increases the hemoglobin concentration in the blood and increases the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood. After blood doping players experience less fatigability.
With all these issues numbers of questions come into our mind.
Is doping ethical?
What will happen to a player if he has to use a prohibited drug for an illness?
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