In a 2011 survey, 44% of elite track and field athletes admitted to doping but the percentage of athletes who are actually caught using performance enhancing drugs is significantly lower, it barely exceeds 1% on average. How do so many get away with using performance enhancing substances and why is no one doing anything to stop it? 

In this episode, we talk about the IOC’s and World Anti-Doping Agency’s strategy for catching doped athletes, touch on Russia’s 2014 Sochi Olympics big doping scandal, and discuss why doping in sports remains even more prevalent than most think. 

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Sources and further reading:

Tackling Doping Seriously - Reforming the World Anti-Doping System after the Russian Scandal by Antoine Duval: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2836388 

Doping in sport: why it can't be stopped (The Economist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z466itSHE58&ab_channel=TheEconomist 

Doping in Two Elite Athletics Competitions Assessed by Randomized-Response Surveys by Rolf Ulrich et al.: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28849386/ 

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