Anti-Doping Policies: The Olympics and Selected Professional Sports (CRS Report for Congress)
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| Release Date |
Revised Oct. 17, 2007 |
| Report Number |
RL32894 |
| Report Type |
Report |
| Authors |
L. Elaine Halchin, Government and Finance Division |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
| Older Revisions |
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Summary:
This report compares current anti-doping policies for performance enhancingsubstances among the Olympic movement and six professional sports leagues.Details associated with the policies of the Olympics, Major League Baseball, theNFL, and the National Basketball Association (NBA) policies are presented in Table1. Table 2 includes the same details about the policies of Major League Soccer(MLS), the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and the NationalHockey League (NHL). The report also presents elements of what have beenidentified as model anti-doping policies and (in the appendix) provides a comparisonof Major League Baseball's former and current anti-doping policies (Table 3) anda glossary of related terms.
