Discuss the role international sports bodies play in detecting and preventing deviance in sport
Discuss the role international sports bodies play in detecting and preventing deviance in sport
In this essay I will discuss how international sports bodies detect and prevent deviance in sport. This can include drug abuse, violence and bias. How they use technology and such methods to cut deviance down as much as possible. At the end of this essay I will have come to a conclusion and will be able to say whether deviance can ever be stopped altogether.
The reason why anyone cheats (breaking the rules of the sport) is to gain unfair advantage over the opposition. In a global context, the notion of cheating can be rather more difficult to define than in the case of any specific culture. Cultural values and codes of behaviour vary, so that which is seen as cheating in one part of the world may not be regarded quite so harshly in another.
At an international level, appropriate legislation and punishment to combat cheating has a much broader dimension than when considered in the purely domestic sense. Agreement is difficult to achieve across a range of cultures, and effective monitoring and implementation on a global scale is fraught with rather more problems than at national level. In global games a further layer of administration often complicates matters. Where many sports are involved, as in the Olympics Commonwealth Games, then the IOC or the Commonwealth Games Committee are the respective bodies responsible. This requires very close liaison with a range of international governing bodies, each of which has responsibility for the running of their own particular sport. With the Olympics, IOC has its own testing laboratories, as do some of the sports governing bodies. The IOC insists on dealing with transgressions of its rules but then requires individual sports governing bodies to support it, or rule on its behalf. In individual sports such as athletics, its world championships are organised and administered by the sport's own governing body, the IAAF. This means that only one body is responsible and it is quite straightforward for the IAAF to deal with it. This is rather different from the scenario at the major multi-sport global games.
In this essay I will discuss how international sports bodies detect and prevent deviance in sport. This can include drug abuse, violence and bias. How they use technology and such methods to cut deviance down as much as possible. At the end of this essay I will have come to a conclusion and will be able to say whether deviance can ever be stopped altogether.
The reason why anyone cheats (breaking the rules of the sport) is to gain unfair advantage over the opposition. In a global context, the notion of cheating can be rather more difficult to define than in the case of any specific culture. Cultural values and codes of behaviour vary, so that which is seen as cheating in one part of the world may not be regarded quite so harshly in another.
At an international level, appropriate legislation and punishment to combat cheating has a much broader dimension than when considered in the purely domestic sense. Agreement is difficult to achieve across a range of cultures, and effective monitoring and implementation on a global scale is fraught with rather more problems than at national level. In global games a further layer of administration often complicates matters. Where many sports are involved, as in the Olympics Commonwealth Games, then the IOC or the Commonwealth Games Committee are the respective bodies responsible. This requires very close liaison with a range of international governing bodies, each of which has responsibility for the running of their own particular sport. With the Olympics, IOC has its own testing laboratories, as do some of the sports governing bodies. The IOC insists on dealing with transgressions of its rules but then requires individual sports governing bodies to support it, or rule on its behalf. In individual sports such as athletics, its world championships are organised and administered by the sport's own governing body, the IAAF. This means that only one body is responsible and it is quite straightforward for the IAAF to deal with it. This is rather different from the scenario at the major multi-sport global games.
