Abstract
Gambling among athletes has increasingly attracted the interest of policymakers and key stakeholders over recent years. This has been fuelled by high-profile cases of elite sports people disclosing extreme gambling behaviour. For example, John Daly, a leading American golfer, claims to have lost over $50m in his autobiography (Daly & Waggoner, 2006). More recently, allegations regarding the fixing of horse races by owners and jockeys (Lees, 2009) and of the bowling of deliberate no-balls (spot-fixing bets) by Pakistani cricketers in a match against England (Mahmood & Evans, 2010) have served to highlight the issue of corruption related to sports gambling. Despite this, only a limited body of empirical work has explored the extent of problem gambling among athletes (e.g. Ellenbogen et al., 2008; Engwall et al., 2004), and there is no empirical research in UK athletes.
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Rhind, D.J.A., O’Brien, K., Jowett, S., Greenlees, I. (2014). Problem Gambling among Athletes in the United Kingdom. In: Gobet, F., Schiller, M. (eds) Problem Gambling. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137272423_6
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