Prologue: Before and after Festina
The Festina Tour
An Incomplete History of the Origins of Cycle Sport
The Convicts of the Route
A Few Brief Words about the Role of the Grand Tours
An Aside on Bike Booms – Now and Then
1. Introduction
The Armstrong Era – Cycling in the Age of Empire
A Note on Terminology
The New Way of the World
The Law-governance Continuum
The End of Modernity?
Chapter Summary
2. Operación Puerto – It’s not about the Blood
Operación Puerto
Puertas Abiertas
Fuentes, Pantani and Chaba
‘We Don’t Want to Know’
Spectacle, Exception and Functionality
Law, Beyond a Boundary
Valverde 1
An Italian Passage
Valverde 2
Valverde 3
The Puerto Trial
3. Form(s) of Law
Forms of Law – Whereabouts are We
Weber and Formal Law
Dicey and the Law of Constitution
Dicey’s Critique of Administrative Law
Law’s Deformalisation and the Need for Speed
Private Governance and the Growth of Arbitrative Demand
The Police
4. A Global Apparatus of Control
Anti-Doping Law and Global Governance
Anti-Doping Offences
Whereabouts Surveillance
Panopticism? and the Internalisation of Control
The Panopticon as Paradigm
Beyond Panopticism
Biopolitical Passports
Trust the Science
The Great Observer
5. The Society of Competition
Another Rule of Law (Is Possible)?
The Third Way!
The Rules of the Game
Competition as Government
‘They are Learning’
Sport as Governance and the Problematisation of the Individual Doper
The Complementary Nature of Free Competition and Anti-Doping Regulation
The Smear of Jouissance
The Pleasure/Performance Apparatus
The Athlete – An Expert of the Society of Competition
Excursus: Competition, Jouissance and the Non-language of Sport 6. Conclusion
Functionality – Exception – Spectacle
Cycling in the Age of Empire
The Athlete as a Paradigm of Life within Empire
The Sovereign, the Kingdom and the Glory of the Wolf
Epilogue
A is for Armstrong
Lance 1.0
Lance 2.0
Lance 3.0
Floyd
Novitsky and USADA
Lance 4.0