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The cultural phenomenon of doping

Public ambivalence, sportive nationalism combine to create blind spot about PEDs

Updated: November 28, 2012, 9:02 PM ET
By Mark Johnson | VeloNews.com

University professor and author John Hoberman sees a need for a culture shift in cycling and is interested in bringing his unique perspective, decades in the making, to the table to help cycling move forward in the wake of the Armstrong affair.

The chair of the Germanic Studies department at the University of Texas, Hoberman has dedicated nearly three decades of his life to studying doping in sport. Specifically, Hoberman has examined how performance- and image-enhancing ...

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