Fastest, Highest, Strongest

A Critique of High-Performance Sport

By: Rob Beamish, Ian Ritchie

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Hardcover | 28 June 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Fastest, Highest, Strongest presents a comprehensive challenge to the dominant orthodoxy concerning the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport.

Examining the political and economic transformation of the Olympic Movement during the twentieth century, the authors argue that the realities of modern sport require a serious reassessment of current policies, in particular the ban on the use of certain substances and practices. The book includes detailed discussion of:

* The historical importance of World War II and the Cold War in the development of a high-performance culture in sport

* The changing Olympic project: from amateurism to a fully professionalized approach

* The changing meaning of "sport"

* The role of sport science, technology and drugs in pursuing ever-better performance

* The major ethical and philosophical arguments used to support the ban on performance-enhancing substances in sport.

Fastest, Highest, Strongest is a profound critical examination of modern sport. Its straightforward style will appeal to under- and post-graduate students as well as scholars of sports ethics and history, policy makers and all those interested in the changing nature of sport.

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Foreword	p. vi
Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
From Coubertin's dream to high-performance sport: the shifting dynamics of Olympic sport	p. 11
Steroids: Nazi propaganda, cold war fears, and "androgenized" women	p. 31
"Sport," German traditions, and the development of "training"	p. 46
From Stalingrad to Helsinki: the development of German sport systems	p. 66
"Something had altered in the faces of the pigs...:" converging sport systems in the GDR and FRG	p. 85
Ethics reconsidered: the spirit of sport, the level playing field, and harm to the athlete	p. 105
Conclusion: the brave new world of high-performance sport	p. 136
Notes	p. 145
Index	p. 187
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