Ethical facets of Doping and Anti-Doping

Ethical aspects of Doping and Anti-doping laws

To create an Anti-Doping India, the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) was created. National Anti-Doping Agency, a registered society, has a mandate to hinder the usage of doping substances among sportspersons in the country. Its shortcomings have a major impact on sportsperson who narrate tales about the mental and emotional agony they went through the years of ban despite the legal trial in progress. 

The Anti-doping rules has a prime objective of implementation of anti-doping rules in accordance with WADA code.  Illegal practices, methods and substances have been identified and have been classified into different categories such as stimulants, steroids, gene doping etc. Krida Legal, an Anti-Doping Law Firm in Delhi NCR elaborates some of the shortcomings in this law and how it overlooks some of the most prevalent issues in the country such as:

1.  Most sportspersons belong to rural background with limited awareness on the doping standards.

2. A variety of medicines used for treating common ailments might be classified in the list of banned substances and when these are unknowingly used by the sportspersons.

3. Sports persons attend and reside in training camps for several months of the year. These training camps have the responsibility of preparing or catering to the sports requirement of an individual sportsperson. A sports person cannot be expected to monitor or reject the food provided in these camps.

4. Most sports institutions have paucity of funds. When recommended supplements are not available, some alternate supplements are provided by coaches to fulfil the requirements of the sportsperson. These might be banned in certain countries leading to doping charges.

Effect of doping charges

With the purview of creating an Anti-Doping India, sportspersons may face ban from pursuing the sports till the legal procedures have been decided which effects their livelihood is affected.

The legal rights of a sportsperson are overlooked as they are vulnerable mostly due to lack of awareness. They face social discrimination such as societal boycott despite the legal procedures still pending due to media trials.

One of the best Anti-Doping Law Firm in Delhi NCR which provides legal assistance and assures that a sportsperson’s rights are safeguarded is KRIDA LEGAL.