Bioethics of Sport – The Look Toward the Future of Sport

Original scientific article

Abstract

T he author approaches the bioethics of sport as crucial in considering the future of today’s sport. Within the bioethics of sport, the youngest sub-discipline of the philosophy of sport (McNamee and Morgan, 2015), the author notices and distinguishes two fundamental viewpoints that differ in the understanding of bio in the notion of bioethics. Thus, on the one hand, bio is understood as biotechnology and bio-medicine and includes a discussion of the problems within such areas in sport. On the other hand, bio is understood as life or bios, which includes a wide range of additional sport-related issues. Furthermore, the author considers the bioethics of sport as the most discussed and most vibrant branch of sports philosophy and as crucial for today’s (professional) sports and its future. Namely, within the area, the most complex problems and cases in sport were discussed and/or resolved, such as those of O. Pistorious, M. Rehm, and C. Semenye, including the recent pandemic caused by the COVID-19. In this sense, the author brings ten anticipated scenarios for the future development of modern sports, based on previous sports-bioethical considerations, research, and insights.