This paper1 uses concepts of anxiety and Foucauldian governmentality to investigate the ways
that the discourses supporting the ban on performance-enhancing drugs in sport have been
manipulated and broadened to treat this issue as a public policy and health issue rather than an
example of rule violation in sport. Some effects of this expansion include the broadening of drug
testing to include testing for recreational drugs, the intrusion of both central governments and
scientific experts into the issue and the curtailment of civil liberties for athletes. A further effect has
been the perpetration of injustices against athletes under the guise of such injustices being
necessary to maintain the integrity of sport.