The athletes’ Right to Privacy within International Regulations on Fighting against Doping from the perspective of European Court of Human Rights

The right to privacy in addition to its ethics significance weighs a particular legal position at national and international domains in today’s world. The international law has attempted to protect people’s right to privacy as the human rights issue finds its validity throughout the world. In international law sources particularly in legally binding instruments under international law including European Convention on Human Rights, this privacy has been recognized as a right. The European Convention on Human Rights explicitly expresses the athletes’ right to privacy, calling for separate regulations to be passed over it. Taking an exact stock on the performance of the European Court of Human Rights against the claims related to the violation of Article 8, by analytical-documentary study method and comparative study of cases, European Court of Human Rights reflecting the right to privacy issue, the present essay has shown that the court afore cited is considered as the most advanced and internationally recognized legal court. While protecting and exercising the provisions of the mentioned article in the light of its procedure with an aim to give supports to athletes' health, the court in addition to fostering the athletes' right to privacy has also managed to develop this trend. The conclusion is that the European Court of Human Rights has acted in accordance with the principles and objectives of the European Convention and has taken a consistent and fair approach to compliance with human rights principles and standards in the face of allegations of invasion of privacy.