Attitudes towards Doping and Related Experience in Spanish National Cycling Teams According to Different Olympic Disciplines.docVIP

AttitudestowardsDopingandRelatedExperiencein SpanishNationalCyclingTeamsAccordingtoDifferent OlympicDisciplines JaimeMorente-Sa′nchez1,2,ManuelMateo-March2,3,MikelZabala1,2 * 1FacultyofSportSciences,UniversityofGranada,Granada,Spain,2SpanishCyclingFederation,Madrid,Spain,3MiguelHerna′ndez University,Elche,Spain Abstract Attitudes towards doping are considered an influence of doping intentions. The aims of the present study were 1) to discover and compare the attitudes towards doping among Spanish national team cyclists from different Olympic disciplines,aswellas2)togetsomecomplementaryinformationthatcouldbetterexplainthecontext.Thesamplewas comprisedofseventy-twocyclists:meanage19.6764.72years;70.8%males(n=51);fromthedifferentOlympicdisciplines ofMountainbike-MTB-(n=18),BicycleMotoCross-BMX-(n=12),Track-TRA-(n=9)andRoad-ROA-(n=33).Descriptive design was carried out using a validated scale (PEAS). To complement this, a qualitative open-ended questionnaire was used. Overall mean score (17–102) was 36.1269.39. For different groups, the data were: MTB: 30.2866.92; BMX: 42.46610.74; TRA: 43.22612.00; ROA: 34.9166.62, respectively. In relation to overall score, significant differences were observed between MTB and BMX (p=0.002) and between MTB and TRA (p=0.003). For the open-ended qualitative questionnaire, the most mentioned word associated with ‘‘doping’’ was ‘‘cheating’’ (48.83% of total sample), with ‘‘responsibleagents ofdoping’’theword‘‘doctor’’(52,77%), andwiththe‘‘mainreasonfortheinitiationindoping’’the words‘‘sportachievement’’(45.83%).Themajorproposedsolutionwas‘‘doingmoredopingcontrols’’(43.05%).Moreover, 48.67% stated that there was ‘‘a different treatment between cycling and other sports’’. This study shows that Spanish nationalteamcyclistsfromOlympiccyclingdisciplines,ingeneral,arenottolerantinrelationtodoping.BMXandTrack ridersarealittlemorepermissivetowardstheuseofbannedsubstancesthanMTBandRoad.Resultsfromthequalitative open-endedquestionnair