Doping in Professional Cycling in the Mid-1990s: A Reconstruction of Sporting Values

By Christophe Brissonneau
English

The analysis of stories of life of five doped, professional cyclists during the 1990s updates, through the notion of career, a progressive registration of the dopantes practices in the career of the cyclists, those, going together with a greater rationalization of the procedures of training. The progressive gliding of the individuals of the common world to the extraordinary high-level one, brings these doped cyclists not to feel as such. Following the example of the collective process of the abnormality shown by H.S Becker, the pharmacological evolution as well as the fall of the system of standards in health, and in ethics are the result of the numerous interactions with the peers cyclist, leaders but also the doctors of the sport who supervise them.

Keywords

  • CAREER
  • DEVIANCE
  • DOPING
  • CYCLISM
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