Doping in Non-Olympic Sports

Doping in Non-Olympic Sports; Challenging the legitimacy of WADA? argues against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) run regime where WADA Code compliance is used as the only parameter to define an activity as sport.

Lovely Dasgupta is Associate Professor of Law at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, India, with particular interests in Sports Law, Competition Law and Contract Law. She became one of the pioneers in the field of studying and researching on Sports Law from an Indian perspective and was one of the first from the Indian legal fraternity to develop and teach the subject called Sports Law.

1. Prologue 2. Non-Olympic Sport and WADA Code-The Twain Needs to Meet 3. Anti-Doping and American Football-Pro versus Amateur Dichotomy 4. ICC versus BCCI- Challenging the Anti-Doping Narrative 5. Dance Sport and Anti-Doping-A Strained Relationship? 6. WADA Code, IOC and Sovereignty-The Non-Olympic Sport Exception 7. Epilogue