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Health and doping in elite-level cycling.

Scand J Med Sci Sports

October 2012

Institute of Sport Sciences of the University of Lausanne (ISSUL), Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (SSP), High Pedagogic School of Lausanne (HEP-VD), Lausanne, Switzerland.

The protection of the health of athletes is one of the three criteria taken into account when registering a substance in the World Anti-Doping Agency prohibited list. Nevertheless, in elite-level cycling, banned substance use is widespread. The present research adopted a psychological approach to examine how or whether perceived health risks influence elite-level cyclists' decisions to use banned substances.

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