Abstract
This chapter discusses consumption of alcohol and sport activities. Research on the relationship between sport participation and the use of alcohol has yielded equivocal results, mainly because of poor methodology in recruiting the athletes. However, recent extensive studies have documented alcohol to be the most widely used and abused drug among athletes, and with considerable variation in drinking habits dependent on gender, types of sport, and level of excellence, and with several environmental and personal factors to explain these differences. Male athletes seems to abstain from drinking alcohol in greater extend, than female athletes and males and females outside sport. Lowest alcohol consumption is found among endurance sport performers, whereas explosive and risk sport performers have the highest consumption—with team sports in between. However, alcohol consumption, especially in form of binge-drinking, seems to decrease with higher level of excellence and more time for training, and places for drinking are mainly outside sport, and with many different motives. It was found that sport participation leads to delay in the beginning of the teenage alcohol phase and intoxication debut, and the consumption of alcohol is less among athletes compared with nonathletes.
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