Légitimité vs illégitimité du dopage chez les sportifs de haut niveau. Comment se définissent les limites du non acceptable?

Abstract

Doping interrogates about a frontier's principles. It's only one of the way to product a performance which is forbidden in a regulation's system: the law. Other regulation's systems exist and are giving structure to quotidian high level athletes activities (a group in which the principal preoccupation is precisely to product performance). Moral, ethic, custom and specific standards of the group are some of them, which are determining differently of law, the frontiers between legitimate and illegitimate chemical and technical uses. The aim of this research's program was to identify argument systems used by athletes and to place elements which are drawing frontiers between legitimate and illegitimate uses of different ergogenic helps. Here two systems will be developed: 1) oppositions between a « normal sport's world » and another world in which athletes have to « make the job », 2) oppositions between a « substance » reasoning and an « approach » reasoning. Through these two systems, athletes are constructing specific lines to determine what is unacceptable for them.