Related Experiment Video
Updated: Sep 24, 2026

Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
Unexplored Life Stories of Elite Athletes With Antidoping Rule Violations: Exploitation and Abuse, (Continuing)
Laura A Martinelli1, Sam N Thrower2, Andrew Heyes3
1Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, School of Sport, Health and Community, University of Winchester, Winchester, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
The aim of the current study was to move beyond the publicly recognized performance narrative and construct additional narrative types derived from the life stories of elite athletes sanctioned for antidoping rule violations (ADRVs). Specifically, the current study addressed three research questions: (a) How are the life history stories of athletes with ADRVs told? (b) What is the content of these life history stories? and (c) How do they differ across athletes with ADRVs? Using a narrative inquiry approach, six life history interviews with elite athletes who received an ADRV were selected to represent a larger data set (n = 35). A "story analyst" position was adopted, and the results illustrated three narrative types: exploitation and abuse, (continuing) discovery, and (in)justice narratives. Taken together, these narrative types challenge dominant discourses of deterrence and exclusion, highlight the limitations of current antidoping frameworks, and call for more compassionate results management, including proportionate punishment.
More Related Videos
06:52An Inertial Measurement Unit Based Method to Estimate Hip and Knee Joint Kinematics in Team Sport Athletes on the Field
Published on: May 26, 2020
09:29Investigating Drivers of Antireward in Addiction Behavior with Anatomically Specific Single-Cell Gene Expression Methods
Published on: August 4, 2022
Related Concept Videos
Life Histories
Ethics in Research
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Proteins: From Genes to Degradation
Transcription is the synthesis of RNA molecules by RNA...
Regulated Protein Degradation
Protein degradation plays two important roles in the cells. It helps to protect cells from misfolded or damaged proteins before they lead to a...
Proteins: From Genes to Degradation
Transcription is the synthesis of RNA molecules by RNA...