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TSL045: The Deaths That Changed Everything: How Doping Regulation in Sport Was Forced Into Existence

For decades, sport tolerated doping. Then athletes started dying, scandals exploded globally, and public trust began to collapse.

From Tom Simpson collapsing on Mont Ventoux to Ben Johnson losing Olympic gold in Seoul, modern doping regulation in sport was built through crisis, not foresight.

In TSL045, I examine the deaths, scandals, and institutional failures that forced sport to finally regulate doping seriously and laid the foundation for modern anti-doping law.

At what point did sport realize it could no longer govern doping informally?

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TSL045: The Deaths That Changed Everything: How Doping Regulation in Sport Was Forced Into Existence The history of doping regulation in sport is often told through rules, testing systems, and governing bodies. In reality, the modern anti-doping framework was built on crisis. Sport did not suddenl…