Category Ranking
98%
Total Visits
921
Avg Visit Duration
2 minutes
Citations
20
Article Abstract
Background: Efforts are needed to improve antidoping procedures. The widespread use of power meters among cyclists could help in this regard. However, controversy exists on whether performance monitoring through power-output data could be of help for antidoping purposes.
Purpose: The objective of the present study was to provide insight into the feasibility and utility of implementing power-based performance monitoring in elite cycling. An expert panel of 15 applied sport scientists and professional cycling coaches were asked for their opinions and perspectives on incorporating power data into the antidoping risk-assessment process.
Results: Two different viewpoints were identified from the responses provided by the experts. Some believed that power monitoring could be implemented as an antidoping tool, provided that several surmountable challenges are first addressed. These authors provided suggestions related to the potential practical implementation of such measures. Others, on the contrary, believed that power meters lack sufficient reliability and suggest that the professional cycling world presents conflicts of interest that make this intervention impossible to implement nowadays.
Conclusions: The debate around the utility of power-meter data in the antidoping fight has been ongoing for more than a decade. According to the opinions provided by the experts' panel, there is still no consensus on the real utility and practical implementation of this intervention.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2024-0088 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Daily Use of a Broad-Spectrum Cannabidiol Supplement Produces Detectable Concentrations of Cannabinoids in Urine Prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency: An Effect Amplified by Exercise.
Med Sci Sports Exerc
September 2025
Research Institute of Sport and Exercise Sciences (RISES), Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool, UNITED KINGDOM.
Background: Cannabidiol (CBD), a non-intoxicating phytocannabinoid, is used by athletes to enhance recovery and manage other conditions (e.g., poor sleep, anxiety).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe 'selves' in doping and its psychosocial mechanisms: harmonised multi-country evidence from high-performing athletes in the UK, US, and China.
Harm Reduct J
September 2025
Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, US.
Background: Doping remains an ongoing threat to clean competition. To date, global preventive initiatives have not addressed critical psychosocial antecedents of doping thoroughly due to the scarcity of knowledge regarding its psychosocial mechanisms from a harmonised cross-country perspective. We, therefore, conducted a multi-country investigation testing the interplay of two important yet overlooked attributes, namely narcissism and self-compassion, and examined their psychosocial mechanisms underpinning doping.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKnowing the minimal detectable dose can facilitate the interpretation of a hair test result: II. Case example with ibutamoren (MK-677), a growth hormone secretagogue.
Clin Chim Acta
August 2025
Institut de médecine légale, 11 rue Humann, F-67000 Strasbourg, France.
Background And Aims: On numerous occasions during hearings at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), it has been advocated by the anti-doping authorities that the results of hair tests should be interpreted with utmost precautions. This was due to the lack of data for the interpretation of the results. In particular, the knowledge of the expected concentrations after a single exposure and after a doping regimen can be missing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDifferences in anti-doping knowledge among Serbian professional athletes.
Front Public Health
August 2025
Antidoping Agency of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the impact of anti-doping education among professional athletes on anti-doping knowledge.
Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted on differences in knowledge toward doping among 404 professional athletes in relation to their education about doping.
Results: Participants who underwent education answered correctly significantly more often on most of the questions compared to participants without education [difference of about 20-30% in the rate of correct answers is in favor of participants with education on every question; 8.
Species differences in cholinesterase expression and their translational impact.
Chem Biol Interact
October 2025
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University Bratislava, Odbojarov 10, 832 32, Bratislava, Slovakia; Toxicological and Antidoping Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University Bratislava, Odbojarov 10, 832 32, Bratislava, Slovakia. Electronic address: anna.p
Rodents, particularly rats and mice, are essential models in cholinergic research due to their physiological and genetic similarities to humans. However, species-specific differences in cholinesterase expression can complicate the interpretation and translation of findings to human biology. To address this, we compared the expression of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) across key tissues like liver, brain, hypothalamus, lungs, and spleen in rats and mice, using RT-qPCR.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF