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If a sport industry knows that being seen to be lacksadasical about preventing doping and having a corrupt culture will lead to the disintegration of the whole sport as an industry, then everyone in it, from top to bottom, will be well-motivated to catch a cheat/corruption and expose a cheat/corruption so that ferreting out the cheat/corruption becomes the integral culture of the sport. It's sad that such a policing culture becomes intrinsic to the sport, but since even biological passport can't catch a cheat---only eyewitness account and whistleblowers can catch a cheat---and whistleblowing is so difficult to do, I don't see what else could be done to rid sports of doping, cheating, and corruption.
Maybe we are about to see an era when sport organizations go out of business in the way that companies do, which, quite frankly, is conceivable because there are tons of possible sports that can unionize and organize and even professionalize to replace the spot that has been emptied by a defunct sport.
That is maybe how organized sport has to operate in the neoliberal era we live in.
Maybe we are about to see an era when sport organizations go out of business in the way that companies do, which, quite frankly, is conceivable because there are tons of possible sports that can unionize and organize and even professionalize to replace the spot that has been emptied by a defunct sport.
That is maybe how organized sport has to operate in the neoliberal era we live in.
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