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标题：Reply to Letter to Editor: Stereotypes of Athletes’ Use of Performance Enhancing Products
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作者：Nkaku Kisaalita ; Nkaku Kisaalita ; Nkaku Kisaalita 等
期刊名称：Journal of Sports Science and Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1303-2968
出版年度：2014
卷号：13
期号：2
页码：458-459
语种：English
出版社：University of Uludag
摘要：We appreciate the letter writer’s comments regarding our recently published manuscript (Kisaalita and Robinson, 2014). This pilot study investigated the motivations and beliefs driving performance enhancing product (PEP) use among competitive cyclists. Specifically, we explored attitudes towards banned and non-banned/legal PEPs using World-Anti-Doping Association (WADA) and Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) criteria. While the author readily recognizes strengths in our methodology and important implications of our findings, he/she also purports that there are several key limitations in our study design. We would like to address the following criticisms: 1) concern regarding the “competitiveness” of the sample of cyclists that would limit the generalizability of the findings; and 2) concern that athletes in our sample may have used banned PEPs for reasons other than performance enhancement (e.g. recreationally).