Introduction
In this report I will be examining the topic of Drugs and Doping in Sport and whether the Australian Legal System needs to be re-evaluated to accommodate for the ever expanding list of performance enhancing drugs that are being identified and evaluated by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority to be unfair to the sport and its morals. The purpose of this report is to identify the problems in the current legal system and the focus of this report is on the establishment and effectiveness of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority that was established in section 20 of the Australian Sport Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006 (Cth) (refer to appendix part A), who is effected, how and whether the current legal system deals fairly …show more content…
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority has implemented several strategies to deter professional sportspeople from using the prohibited substances; one of these deterrents is the implementation of “no advance notice drug testing” where an official from the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority provides no warning to the athlete that was selected for a random drug test and the official chaperones the athlete until the athlete submits for their drug test. Drugs and doping in sport law should have harsher punishments and stricter rules, having this implemented should deter even more athletes from participating in doping in sport however, if doping was legalised and every athlete could use certain performance enhancing drugs and certain procedures that may have been banned previously, would giving every player access to performance enhancing drugs make the playing field level again? No because in the case of some performance enhancing drugs being legalised players will more than likely use the substances that are banned anyway because they would consistently be looking to get the upper hand on their opponent, none the less the legalisation of performance enhancing drugs in professional sports could prove to be beneficial to society and
In this report I will be examining the topic of Drugs and Doping in Sport and whether the Australian Legal System needs to be re-evaluated to accommodate for the ever expanding list of performance enhancing drugs that are being identified and evaluated by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority to be unfair to the sport and its morals. The purpose of this report is to identify the problems in the current legal system and the focus of this report is on the establishment and effectiveness of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority that was established in section 20 of the Australian Sport Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006 (Cth) (refer to appendix part A), who is effected, how and whether the current legal system deals fairly …show more content…
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority has implemented several strategies to deter professional sportspeople from using the prohibited substances; one of these deterrents is the implementation of “no advance notice drug testing” where an official from the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority provides no warning to the athlete that was selected for a random drug test and the official chaperones the athlete until the athlete submits for their drug test. Drugs and doping in sport law should have harsher punishments and stricter rules, having this implemented should deter even more athletes from participating in doping in sport however, if doping was legalised and every athlete could use certain performance enhancing drugs and certain procedures that may have been banned previously, would giving every player access to performance enhancing drugs make the playing field level again? No because in the case of some performance enhancing drugs being legalised players will more than likely use the substances that are banned anyway because they would consistently be looking to get the upper hand on their opponent, none the less the legalisation of performance enhancing drugs in professional sports could prove to be beneficial to society and