One of the things I enjoy most about academia (and I feel it’s not rewarded enough in the competitive academic environment focused on peer-reviewed publications and grant getting) is writing opinion pieces.
Here’s a recent example of this type of work, with amazing PhD candidate Giulia Sesa, who had the idea to write about this in the first place:
#doping #enhancedgames #wada #celebrityboxingmatch #netflix #jakepaul #miketyson
Posted in Ethics & Sports
Tagged celebrity boxing, doping, enhanced games, Mike Tyson, WADA
Quando: Venerdi’, 28 Aprile 2023, 14:00 – 16:30
Friday, 28th April 2023, 14:00 – 16:30
Dove: Dipartimento di Psicologia e Scienze Cognitive, Universita’ di Trento, Corso Angelo Bettini 84, Rovereto
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Corso Angelo Bettini 84, Rovereto
14:00 Benvenuto / Welcome
14:15 Assegnazione del titolo di Distinguished Visiting Professor al Prof Olivier Rabin, WADA Senior Director in Science and Medicine
Conferment of Distinguished Visiting Professor to Prof. Olivier Rabin, WADA Senior Director in Science and Medicine
14:45 Discorso Inaugurale/Inaugural Speech
Prof. Olivier Rabin
15:30 Tavola Rotonda sulle Nuove Sostanze Emergenti nello Sport/Round Table on New Emerging Drugs in Sport
Moderatori/Chairs
Prof Ornella Corazza & Prof Gianluca Esposito, Universita’ di Trento/University of Trento (Italia/Italy)
Relatori / Panelists
Prof Francesco Botré, Laboratorio Anti-Doping FMS, Anti-doping Laboratory FMS, Roma/Rome (Italia/Italy)
Dr Thomas Zandonai, Universita’ di Miguel Hernandez University of Elche Alicante/Miguel Hernandez University of Elche Alicante (Spagna/Spain)
Dr Pierluigi Simonato, Parco dei Tigli, Clinica per la Doppia Dignaosi/ Clinical Dual Diagnosis Clinic, Padova/Padua (Italia/Italy)
Dr Renzo Ferrante, Arma dei Carabinieri (NAS) (Italia/Italy)
Dr Silvia Camporesi, Universita’ di Vienna/University of Vienna (Austria/Austria)
16:15 Riflessioni conclusive/Final remarks
Tito Giovannini, Fondazione Milano-Cortina 2026
16:30 Chiusura /End
Posted in Bioethics
Tagged doping, drugs, governance, Olivier Rabin, Ornella Corazza, policy, sport, WADA
Camporesi S, & Knuckles JA (2014). Shifting the burden of proof in doping: lessons from environmental sustainability applied to high-performance sport. Reflective Practice, 15(1), 106-118.
One of Lance Armstrong’s former sponsors…
In this paper, co-authored with James A. Knuckles, we analyse the role of incentives in high-performance sports, borrowing concepts from sustainability policies and applying them to the context of doping in sports. Professional athletes discount their future health in exchange for desired enhanced performances. In the same way, many industrialised societies discount future environmental health for short-term economic returns, jeopardising the future of the planet. We propose a solution to alter this discounting, by applying the lessons from environmental sustainability, which has long proposed shifting the burden of proof away from regulators in order to alter the practice of discounting the planet’s future health for current economic gains, to high-performance sports.
We argue that the burden of proof for doping should not rest on the athlete or the team of sports doctors, but should rest instead on the sponsors. Under this system, WADA would retain and strengthen its own testing, and impose severe penalties on the sponsors of any athlete found to be doping.
Only by making the companies accountable for the athletes they sponsor, can we de-link sponsorship money from a win-at-all-costs mentality in sports that in turn leads to doping, and subsequently to discounting the future health of the athlete.
Posted in Bioethics, Ethics & Sports, Health policy
Tagged doping, enhancement, high performance, James Knuckles, Reflective practice, sustainability, WADA
Prof. Silvia Camporesi 
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