devil. Exorcism was the obvious solution if sport was to be rescued. Soon the World Anti-Doping Agency was put in place. Its aim was to hunt down and eliminate doping cheats globally.

The Doping Devil was written before the formation of the World Anti-Doping Agency was even decided. Careful not to advocate the legalisation of doping, it constructs its argument around the idea that the devil may lie in sport itself.