Controlling Deviant Overconformity

Recommendations

• Deep hypocrisy involved in elite power and performance sport
  • Use of painkillers, massive injections of B-12, artificial hydration, pure oxygen, etc are all allowed. Playing with pins in broken bones or with high-tech casts promote a performance-enhancing culture.
• Establish rules indicating that certain risks are unnecessary in sport
  • Using keri strugg as a national hero when she vaulted with a broken bone is not necessary.
• Establish rules stating that injured players should not be allowed to play
  • Physicians and trainers are paid to keep the players on the field.
• Educational programs for young athletes “courage” as recognizing limits
  • Teach young athletes to be in tune with their bodies rather than to deny the body is important for controlling deviant overconformity.
• Educational programs for all (coaches, athletes, parents, administrators, etc.)
  • Drug education and education for others to not promote over conforming behaviors.
• Establish code of ethics for sport scientists
  • Create new norms with regard to technology, medicine, limits, performance-enhancing drugs, and so on.