The spirit of sport?

In the 1970s and 1980s the use of performance enhancing drugs was increasingly being linked to the deaths of elite athletes, mainly cyclists (Verroken, 2000). As a direct response to these problems, and to assist in the international standardisation of anti-doping efforts, in 1999 the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was created. WADA then developed the first World Anti-Doping Code (WADA, 2003), which periodically undergoes revisions. The current edition (WADA, 2009) will be superseded by the third edition, scheduled for release in 2015. The two papers in this issue (Henne, Koh, & McDermott, 2013; Waddington, Christiansen, Gleaves, Hoberman, & Møller, 2013) address an apparent inconsistency in the Code concerning the inclusion of illicit, non-performance enhancing drugs (NPEDS).