Suspicious Blood and Performance in Professional Cycling

Tom Coupé and Olivier Gergaud
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Journal of Sports Economics, 2013, vol. 14, issue 5, 546-559

Abstract: In this note, the authors analyze whether the International Cycling Union’s “index of suspicion,†which reflects the extent to which a rider is suspected of using doping, correlates with performance during the 2010 Tour de France and the 1-year period before and after the 2010 Tour de France. Though our point estimates suggest a medium-sized performance improving effect of being suspected of doping, the index of suspicion can only explain a very small part of the variation in performance. This could be because the current doping practice in cycling has little effect on diverse rankings in these races.

Keywords: doping; cycling; Tour de France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/1527002512441481

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