GUIDE
ARTICLES – abstractGene
doping
between
fiction and reality
Oravitan
Mihaela
University
of the West Timişoara, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports
Abstract
Gene
doping represents the latest
challenge in the
doping matter; the progress made both in biotechnology and in gene
therapy gained notoriety and stimulated the interest of several
sportsmen as well as of trainers with a view to use them in order to
increase performance. The premises that led to the idea of using
gene transfer in sports, the legal issues, the ethical and
deontological problems raised by the use of this new method, its
effects, the present stage of the measures taken by the anti-doping
agencies with reference to sanctioning and testing gene transfer
applied to sportspersons are presented in this study.
Key
words:
gene doping, testing, anti-doping