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There are a few competitive sports where the same pattern occurs. Namely decentralized sports, particularly boxing where it's not rare for some elite athlete to
by mkl95 4y ago
There are a few competitive sports where the same pattern occurs. Namely decentralized sports, particularly boxing where it's not rare for some elite athlete to be banned temporarily after testing positive for PEDs. Most bans are for 6-12 months which is a joke.
My guess is that the more decentralized a sport is, the more likely it is for cheating to occur and go unpunished. Chess is unofficially becoming a decentralized sport since the pandemic due to the shift to online playing. Even if some organizations claim to be in power, there is only so much they can do. Banning cheaters permanently may not even be possible.
- cco 4y ago> Most bans are for 6-12 months which is a joke. An athlete's professional career is roughly ten years* with the majority of their earning potential to be an even smaller set of those years. A ban from being paid for 12 months may represent 10% or more of an athlete's career earning potential. *Of course this varies a lot by sport, gymnastics careers are obviously very short, a golfer's career may be much longer.
- iudqnolq 4y agoEven worse, professional athletes fund full-time training through ways that wouldn't be available during a ban. Skip full-time training for a year and you'll probably not be competitive after.
- cool_dude85 4y agoPresumably any long FIDE ban would be the end of a serious chess career, right?
- jfim 4y agoWhat does decentralized mean in the context of a sport? Does it mean having more than one governing body for the sport?
- mkl95 4y agoMultiple governing bodies. For instance boxing has four major governing bodies and dozens of small organizations. Other than that every area has its own athletic commission that is allowed to freely interpret some rules.