Abstract
Top-level sport imposes new and more demanding physical and psychological pressures, and the desire for competing, winning and selfassertion leads athletes into temptation to use prohibited substances in order to achieve the best possible results. Regardless of the fact that the adverse consequences of prohibited substances are well-known, prestige and the need to dominate sports arenas have led to their use in sports. Doping is one of the biggest issues in sport today, and the fight against it is a strategic objective on both global and national levels. World Anti-Doping Agency, the International Olympic Committee, international sports federations, national anti-doping agencies, national sports federations, as well as governments and their repressive apparatuses are all involved in the fight against doping in sport. This paper points to a different etymology and phenomenology of doping, the beginnings of doping in sport, sports doping scandals as well as the most important international instruments regulating this issue. Also, there is a special reference in this paper to the criminal and misdemeanor sanctions for doping in sport. In Serbia doping in sport is prohibited by the Law on Prevention of Doping in Sports which came into force in 2005 and which prescribes the measures and activities aimed at prevention of doping in sport. In this context, the law provides for the following three criminal offenses: use of doping substances, facilitating the use of doping substances, and unauthorized production and putting on traffic of doping substances. In addition, aiming at curbing the abuse of doping this law also provides for two violations. More frequent and repetitive doping scandals indicate that doping despite long-standing sanctions is still present in sports, which suggests that sanctions alone have not given satisfactory results so far.
Highlights
Sports activities are beneficial both in terms of personality development and maintenance of good health, improvement of physical qualities, better and more purposeful use of leisure time and improvement of the quality of life
It is not disputed that doping constitutes cheating, nothing less than a possible intentional tripping of opponents during a track race or an intentional foul aimed at causing injury in any sports match does
A better way to solve this issue would be to keep the term ‘a minor’ in the wording of the fundamental form of the criminal offense and to stipulate one more, the most serious form which would be prescribed if the act is committed against a child. This kind of a solution seems acceptable since the society is interested in the increased legal protection of the youngest categories, and it is not disputable that nowadays even children are at risk from doping
Summary
Сажетак Спорт на врхунском нивоу, намеће нове и све захтевније физичке и психичке притиске, а жеља за такмичењем, победом и самодоказивањем доводи спортисте у искушење да користе забрањена средства због постизања што бољих резултата. Без обзира што су штетне последице примене забрањених супстанци познате, престиж и потреба за доминацијом на спортским теренима довела је до тога, да је њихова примена у спорту присутна. Без обзира што су штетне последице примене допинга познате, престиж и потреба за доминацијом на спортским теренима довела је до тога, да је њихова примена у спорту присутна. Истраживања показују да у свету око петнаест и по милиона људи користи допинг, највише анаболичке стероиде, што указује на то да прописи који забрањују коришћење допинга професионалним спортистима нису довољни за заштиту здравља будући да све већи број рекреативних спортиста користи ове супстанце. Одговори на наведена питања очекују се од правне науке, а затим и правне праксе која је већ настала или управо настаје кроз стварање и примену прописа који уређују област производње, продаје, употребе и контроле дозвољености примене појединих хемијских супстанци и медицинских метода у области тренинга спортиста и спортских такмичења (Шупут, 2008)
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