This paper provides a new contention, which could be needed for developing the anti-doping education in Japan, through the critical consideration about its present situation. For this purpose, the question, “why do athletes choose doping?”, is explored from the perspective of Girard’s theory of desire. This theory suggests that the competitive sport includes the desire for victory and that the desire could paralyze the judgement of athlete with extravagance. Girard points that human desire is the “triangular” desire as a mimetic one and it means that the desire of a subject is not linear to an object but the mimesis of the mediator’s desire. In the position that the essence of competitive sport is the competition, the essence is equal to the desire for victory. Therefore, in the competitive sport, athletes have the desire for victory which is mimetic desire of the opposition. Moreover, the mediator also mimics the subject’s desire and its mediation form is called as the reciprocal mediation. This mediation form becomes “the hell of reciprocal mediation” in the case in which the spiritual distance between the subject and the mediator is close, and it builds the hostile relation between an athlete and the opposition. This relation makes the athlete to have the cognition which wants to just defeat the opposition rather than to win the game or match. Hence, in the hell of reciprocal mediation, an athlete chooses doping with paralyzing her sense of reality which is willing to follow the written rule or the spirit of fair play in competitive sport. Finally it is presented that, in anti-doping education, athletes themselves have to recognize the risk of the triangular desire in competitive sport.
