662. If You’re Not Cheating, You’re Not Trying

In sports, the rules are meant to be sacrosanct. But when it comes to performance-enhancing drugs, the slope is super-slippery. (Part one of a two-part series (freakonomics.com/if-youre-not-cheating-youre-n…).)

• SOURCES:• April Henning (hw.ac.uk/profiles/uk/school/ebs/faculty/april-…), associate professor of international sport management at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Aron D'Souza (arondsouza.com/index.html), founder of the Enhanced Games.
• Floyd Landis (floydsofleadville.com), former professional cyclist, founder of Floyd's of Leadville.
• Louisa Thomas (newyorker.com/contributors/louisa-thomas), staff writer at The New Yorker.

• RESOURCES:• Doping: A Sporting History (amzn.to/4a2uHik), by April Henning and Paul Dimeo (2022).
• "The Man Who Brought Down Lance Armstrong (theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/lance…)," by Matt Hart (The Atlantic, 2018).
• Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong (amzn.to/4a0Vlbw), by Juliet Macur (2014).
• Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France (amzn.to/3ZnTRSq), by Floyd Landis (2007).
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (amzn.to/4tiGTmJ), by Lewis Carroll (1865).

• EXTRAS:• "Has Lance Armstrong Finally Come Clean? (freakonomics.com/podcast/has-lance-armstrong-f…)" by Freakonomics Radio (2018).

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