Inefficiency of the anti-doping system: cost reduction proposals.
The anti-doping system, under the guidance of WADA, costs at least $228 million per year, mostly to cover the cost of performing about 270,000 doping tests. However, "testing has not proven to be particularly effective in detecting dopers/cheats" (WADA). It is suggested, competitions of doping-endangered disciplines be redesigned. Sports with numerous doping cases should be temporarily excluded from the Olympic program and not be televised. Pecuniary fines should be higher and collection guaranteed by a deferred compensation model. Sports with multiple doping offenses should bear most of the anti-doping costs. Finally, appropriate tenders should guarantee fees of anti-doping laboratories develop more competitively.
Department of Economics, University of Hamburg , Hamburg , Germany.
Wolfgang
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Maennig
D017046:Cost Savings / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D004300:Doping in Sports / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007753:Laboratories; D015813:Substance Abuse Detection / Q000191:economics*
WADA; competition for laboratories; costs; deferred compensation model; doping; pecuniary disincentives; test