TY - JOUR PY - 2017// TI - Did Armstrong cheat? JO - Sport, ethics and philosophy A1 - Moore, Eric SP - 413 EP - 427 VL - 11 IS - 4 N2 - In this paper, I explore the idea that under one way of understanding cheating, Armstrong did not fulfill any of the three necessary conditions: (1) that cheating violates a rule--I will make the case that though doping was against the official rules, it was not against the rules the athletes used; (2) that it is cheating if the intent is to obtain an unfair advantage--I will argue that dopers were not attempting to obtain an unfair advantage, at least on one plausible understanding of fairness; and (3) that cheating requires fair enforcement of the rules--I will show that the official rules against doping were hardly enforced at all, much less fairly enforced, and thus lacked enough sufficient normative force to deem breaking them cheating.

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LA - en SN - 1751-1321 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2017.1292306 ID - ref1 ER -