When Every Test Is a Winner

Clean Cycling, Surveillance, and the New Preemptive Governance

Bibliographic Data

ID2349216
AuthorsOphir Sefiha (0000-0002-1404-5635, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, USA, corresponding author), Nancy Reichman (University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA), Nancy E Reichman (0000-0001-7285-1515, University of Denver)
Year2016
Volume40
Issue3
Pages197-217
Publication date2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0193723516632045
OpenAlexW2341207988
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited53

This article examines the trend toward risk-based, preemptive social control as it has developed in anti-doping regulation in professional cycling. Specifically, this research considers how the regulatory technologies of anti-doping surveillance have become a core component of the everyday routines of professional cyclists. Drawing from interviews with professional cyclists and analysis of mediated representations of anti-doping, we find that surveillance and disclosure have become not simply routine, but a central orienting practice in the everyday lives of professional cyclists. Blended into the everyday routines, surveillance technologies extend the gaze of those who watch and increase pressures to disclose. As athletes internalize surveillance and disclosure as consistent with their professional norms, the power relationships that surround sport performance become increasingly difficult to discern

Athletes · Control (management · Gaze · Political science · Power (physics · Professional sport · Public relations · Test (biology · Applied Psychology · Computer Science · Doping in Sports · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sports Analytics and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society

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