Goldman's dilemma

As Goldman Dilemma (English Goldman dilemma or even Goldman 's dilemma ) are findings from a study of the American physician and journalist Bob Goldman called, which found that approximately 50% of top athletes would be willing to die within five years if they taking a drug would secure the win an Olympic gold medal. Goldman led appropriate surveys for the first time in 1982 and repeated it at intervals of two years until the mid- 1990s. The results were always similar. 2009 was a complementary study of Australian sports medicine, which appeared in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that in contrast to only about 1% of the total population would be willing to pay such a price for outstanding professional success. The scientists concluded that the mindset of athletes in relation to the Langerringen of successes significantly different from much of the rest of the population.

The Goldman dilemma is considered sport sociologically well documented and is a regular at the Doping Research an important role, in particular, it is often cited in relation to gene doping, get the big effect, however, can have serious side effects.