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Play True 2004 playISSUE 1 - 2004 AN OFFICIAL true PUBLICATION OF THE WORLD ANTI-DOPING AGENCY ONTREAL AUSANNE TOKYO (HQ) Regional Support CAPETOWN Wada’s regional offices and the increased efforts of committed national governments are helping to bring the anti-ddoping message to the global stage play true AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WORLD ANTI-DOPING AGENCY CONTACT: THE WORLD ANTI-DOPING AGENCY 800 PLACE VICTORIA - SUITE 1700 P.O. BOX 120 02 MONTREAL, QC CANADA H4Z 1B7 TEL: +1.514.904.9232 FAX: +1.514.904.8650 E-MAIL: [email protected] URL: www.wada-ama.org PHOTOS APPEAR COURTESY OF: STACY SPLETZER (WADA) KURT SCHORRER (FIFA INTERVIEW) 01 ARND HEMMERSBACH (BECKIE SCOTT) SPORTS FOTO GETTY IMAGES 03 GRAPHIC DESIGN & ILLUSTRATIONS: ANTHONY PHILBIN DESIGN, MONTREAL E-MAIL: [email protected] All information published in this newsletter was correct at time of printing. The articles published in this newsletter, and the opinions expressed by the writers and featured athletes and experts do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the World Anti-Doping Agency. 01 02 R.W. Pound Editorial: Cover Story and Special Feature: The Lessons of THG Regional Support The swift cooperation surrounding the discovery A look at the process and personnel that have helped and identification of THG to develop WADA’s three main regional offices in demonstrates that a new Tokyo, Cape Town, and Lausanne, and at the work milestone has been reached they are doing to keep the anti-doping message in the fight to create a truly meaningful for their regions. unified and effective global Page 2 response to doping in sport. Richard Pound reviews the THG timeline and draws 03 some conclusions regarding just how far the world anti- doping effort has come. Support from Washington Page 1 A profile of Scott Burns, the new U.S. representative to the WADA Foundation Board, and a look at the recent high-level announcements and indictments that are positioning the U.S. as a leader in the fight against doping in sport. Page 5 contents 04 06 05 07 08 WADA UPDATES 04 06 08 Athlete Profile: WADA Updates Pg Government Assistance Beckie Scott UNESCO Convention................14 Canadian cross-country skier The Code ...................................14 Profiles of government ministers from Beckie Scott speaks, along with Education Survey.....................15 South Africa, Russia, Australia and Japan her husband Justin Wadsworth, Prohibited List..........................15 who are taking a special interest in on seeing her Bronze turn into Funding.....................................15 promoting drug-free sport. Gold, and of the state of doping Page 7 in sport. Page 11 05 07 FIFA Magazine Interview: WADA Outreach: Jiri Dvorak IPC World Skiing Championship FIFA’s Chief Medical Officer discusses Outreach news from the doping in Football and his organization’s International Paralympic cooperation with WADA. Committee’s World Skiing Page 9 Champioship in Wildschonau Valley, Austria. Page 13 Editorial: Richard W. Pound 02 01 A True Milestone The swift and stern response to the discovery of THG demonstrated an important and unprecedented new level of global anti-doping cooperation No matter where in the world you sport in a State of the Union This cooperation is truly a milestone are, if you have even a passing Address. The harm that steroids and and shows how far we have come in interest in sports, it would have been banned substances do to the bodies the fight against doping in sport. In hard to miss the THG story the last of young athletes is now so clear that creating WADA, the sports few months. Ever since an heads of state are prepared to enter movement and world governments anonymous coach gave the U.S. the battle against their use by our realized the need to work together if Anti-Doping Agency a sample of the children. sports were to be free of drugs. I am previously unknown steroid, and the heartened that this goal seems to UCLA laboratory in the United States Equally extraordinary was the have come to fruition. found a way to detect this substance announcement of the four and test for it, the fight against indictments in the THG case by the Perhaps the most important lesson doping in sport has been forever Attorney General of the United of all from the THG story is the changed. States. What would have once have message it sends to athletes and been relegated to local news stations their entourages. First, no one is Consider what has happened in the last year regarding THG and the impact it has had on doping in sport. In creating WADA, the sports movement and world A national anti-doping agency took the lead in an investigation that governments realized the need to work together if would cross numerous sports, countries, athletes and coaches. An sports were to be free of drugs. I am heartened that accredited laboratory was able to identify the substance, and create a this goal seems to have come to fruition. test for its detection, which was then passed on to all WADA accredited was important enough that the top immune. The first four indictments laboratories. The majority of this law enforcement officer in America in the THG cases were not against work was done in complete was willing to make the athletes but those who helped them confidentiality, to enable the trap to announcement himself. take banned substances. Just be sprung. because you are a coach, trainer or And most recently, a disciplinary doctor does not mean you are safe Once the announcement regarding committee in Britain banned one of from the consequences of your THG was made in October of last these five athletes, Dwain Chambers, actions. An athlete may pay the price year, the work to capture those from competition for two years for for using a prohibited substance, but responsible for its creation and having tested positive for THG. The so will you. distribution began in earnest. At sanction is completely in line with WADA's urging, sports authorities the World Anti-Doping Code for a Athletes should take this message to retested stored samples from a first offense for the use of steroids. heart, too. Some may have taken number of competitions and five THG, feeling that it was not a known athletes were named as having Some important lessons can be substance and therefore, they would tested positive for the drug. The U.S. learned from the THG scandal. First, not get caught. Others may today be Government investigated what laws there is no doubt that the fight in taking drugs that are as of yet may have been broken by those who doping has come a long way. undetected, feeling confident that introduced THG into the sports Consider the cooperation it took they will not be caught. Let the THG world. A grand jury was convened. between so many different elements issue be a warning to them all. If you And this year, indictments were to bring a case involving THG to its cheat, you will be caught. If you are handed down against those believed just conclusion. National anti-doping caught, you will face the to have broken the law in agencies, international federations, consequences. And if you think distributing this controlled substance an accredited laboratory, and governments and the sports world to athletes. government authorities all worked are not organized enough to catch together on this issue. If any of these you, read the papers for the last few Most remarkable of all, the attention links had failed somewhere along months and think again. from this scandal led the President of the way, the chain would have been the United States, for the first time, broken. to mention the topic of doping in 1 play true - issue 1 - 2004 02 Regional Support: Local Offices Reaching out to the World 02 The development of a global anti-doping culture requires not only a strong message and the tools to communicate it, but also the important work of regional WADA representatives who tailor that message to the needs of local athletes and federations. A profile of WADA’s regional offices and of the committed men and women who have helped bring the Agency’s message to the world When the World Anti-Doping Agency headquarters moved to the North core roles and responsibilities: liaising was established in Lausanne in American continent, a small office with stakeholders in their respective November 1999, stakeholders always remained open in Lausanne to serve regions; actively promoting WADA intended to make sure its mandate as the office for the European region and its mission; providing information would be global. As an international (WADA remains a Swiss Foundation to the media and public on doping organization, WADA has an obligation with its legal seat in Switzerland). In issues; and coordinating projects such to serve all its constituents in all November 2003, similar offices were as those related to education, regions of the globe. set up in Tokyo, Japan (covering communications, or implementation Asia/Oceania) and Cape Town, South of the World Anti-Doping Code. WADA's Foundation Board agreed in Africa (serving the African continent). 2001 to move the Agency's But the directors and assistants in headquarters to Montreal. The Board Today, these three offices carry out a these offices do much more. They members, however, also agreed that number of duties in conjunction with best know and understand the needs regional offices would need to be the staff of 38 employees in Montreal, of the continents in which they live established in other parts of the world aimed at furthering WADA's vision of and have great responsibility in to completely carry out WADA's promoting a doping-free culture in ensuring that WADA's work is best mission.
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