Celebrity boxing matches and ‘doping-legal Olympics’: the increasingly blurred line between sports and entertainment

By Giulia Sesa, PhD Candidate in Biomedical Sciences (KU Leuven) & PhD Candidate in Sport Sciences (Norwegian School of Sport Sciences), KU Leuven
Silvia Camporesi, Professor of Sports Integrity and Ethics, KU Leuven

We like to think that sports are fixed and immutable, but like anything else, they are a product of their time. Just look at the Olympic Games, where events like motorboating, tug-of-war and obstacle course swimming came and went during the 1900s. More recently, breakdancing appeared in this year’s Paris Olympics, while lacrosse will make a return…

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