Drugs in sport debate: Proposer’s response to comments
by Julian Savulescu two early comments on the online debate website raise concerns about allowing performance enhancing drugs in sport:
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Read MoreOxford Debates — Performance-Enhancing Drugs Should be Allowed in Sport — Moderator’s Opening Statement
Oxford Online Debates by Roger Crisp Taking drugs to improve one’s sporting performance seems, on the face of it, a paradigmatic example of a wrong action. It combines two activities usually considered shameful: the use of banned substances…
Read MoreOxford Debates – Performance enhancing drugs should be allowed in sport – Opposer’s opening statement
Oxford Online Debates by John William Devine In just over two years the world’s elite athletes will descend on the U.K. for London 2012. Should these athletes be permitted to use performance enhancing drugs or should the fight to eliminate …
Read MoreOxford Debates – Performance enhancing drugs should be allowed in sport – Proposer’s opening statement
[This is the first post in the Trinity term Oxford University Online Debate. Feel free to comment on any of the debate either at this blog or over at the official debate website. Votes can be cast after the concluding statements R…
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Read MoreDrugs in Sport debate and special edition
Over the next month Oxford Online Debates will be tackling the motion "Performance enhancing drugs should be allowed in sport". We will try to collect together relevant materials and blog posts below in this special edition.
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