Editorial: debates in elite sports and performance enhancement: 2022

Success in sport depends on research and the advancement of applied science to ensure health and achieve performance enhancement among athletes. However, to further progress evidence-based practices, there is a need to critically revise and discuss around emerging challenges that sport practitioners face. Frontiers in Sport and Active Living recognizes the importance of facilitating debate and discussion amongst the community, and so has organized this Research Topic, offering a platform for such discussion to occur in the field of sports science. This Research Topic entitled “Debates in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement” aimed to highlight themes that foster debate and discussion in the high-performance sports industry. We encouraged authors to submit opinions or perspective pieces that focus on the “pros” or “cons” of all areas surrounding the athlete's environment for performance enhancement. Our final goal was to respectfully challenge perspectives and paradigms to enhance sports performance.