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Magazin 2007 FOOTBALL PROBLEMS home for the homeless questions in sport Creating coalitions for good governance in sport Stories from the fi fth world communication conference on sport and society Reykjavik, Iceland 28 October – 2 November 2007 www.playthegame.org Dick Pound: Shaka Hislop: Jörg Jaksche: Backing fi ght against corruption Players must take responsibility Breaking the law of silence EDITORIAL Play the Game 2007 Conference SPEAK UP Magazine © Play the Game 2008 for the love of sport This magazine is a journalistic presentation of events during Play the Game 2007, the fi fth world communication conference on sport It is high time to found a and society, which took place in Rejkjavik, Iceland from 28 October to 2 November. new global institution to Views expressed in the articles are not fi ght corruption in sport necessarily those of Play the Game. Articles can be quoted in parts when crediting the author and Play the Game. For all other by Jens Sejer Andersen kinds of reproduction written permission must be requested at [email protected] In March 2008, when the largest corruption scandal ever The same advance cannot be noted in the combat of Editor-in-chief in the world of sport was disclosed in a Swiss courtroom, the other big threat to the values of sport: corruption. Jens Sejer Andersen the reaction from the sports and media communities was On the contrary, corruption seems to be growing in [email protected] remarkable. its many forms: match fi xing, traffi cking, money laundering, Editors The court stated that from 1989-2001 the now secret commissions and outright bribery to name a few. Kirsten Sparre bankrupt sports marketing company ISL handed out It is high time to get inspired by WADA and found a [email protected] 138 million Swiss francs – 87.5 million euros – in bribes new world institution to fi ght corruption in sport. Maria Suurballe to sports leaders in return for acquiring television and The institution should be run by different in- [email protected] marketing rights. ter ests: the International Olympic Committee and Michael Herborn You would think that this information should make the international sport federations, by the Uni t ed Nati- [email protected] headlines worldwide, but very few news media bothered ons, by governments, and by inter govern mental organisa- Writers to publish it. tions like the European Union. Alexander Borch Nielsen You would also think that the sports organisations And it should also invite representatives of the media, Andrew Jennings that once were the customers of ISL – the global football, the fan trusts and the sports business world on board. Ezequiel Fernández Moores tennis, athletics, swimming, basketball, and Olympic Fikir Yilkal Janus Sejersen Laursen organisations – would immediately try to hunt down 1. defi ne minimum standards for transparency, Marcus Hoy those of their leaders who had fi lled their own pockets accountability and democratic procedures in sport Morten Perregaard with fortunes belonging to sport. 2. monitor that the minimum standards are respected Morten Romby But no. 3. actively welcome sports offi cials and other Pablo Vignone The omerta – the law of silence – is wide spread in stakeholders to report irregularities Rafael Maranhao Sanne Juhl world sport when facing unpleasant news. 4. have a mandate to investigate cases of mismanagement As you will see in this magazine, speakers and and corruption, including the right to search sports Photos All photos by press photographer Niels participants at the fi fth Play the Game conference would offi ces, archives etc. without prior notice Nyholm if not otherwise credited. be sentenced to several years in prison if the law of 5. be equipped with right to issue bans against Photos can be downloaded from silence was enforced in real life. individuals or groups and suspend those who are www.playthegame.org/2007 They speak up about issues that are often neglected under investigation Print in the public domain. Critical issues like corruption, 6. be enabled to report supposed violations to national Rosendahls Bogtrykkeri, DK-6715 Esbjerg N traffi cking or doping, and positive issues like the value of or international legal authorities www.rosendahls.dk sport in the development of children, grown-ups and of 7. regularly communicate its fi ndings to the public Design & layout our communities. Nanette Vabø, Nanette Graphic Design They do so out of love for sport and what it can Sport cannot solve the immense challenges it is facing www.nanette.dk bring of joy, health and education. And they do believe by turning its back to society. Chairman of the board of Play the Game that the best remedy against the illnesses of sport is an This is fully understood in Iceland, a country Jens Brinch, [email protected] open and transparent public debate. marked by 1,000 years of democratic tradition, a strong Play the Game 2007 was supported by In the years since Play the Game made its fi rst corruption-free culture and a social and humanistic Ungmennafélag Islands (UMFI) gathering of journalists, researchers and sports leaders in approach to sport. The Danish Ministry of Culture 1997, the sports debate has progressed on some fronts; Play the Game thanks our co-hosts at UMFI and all Danish Gymnastics and Sports Associations, DGI on others it has not. Icelanders for the inspiration they gave us. Through this The National Olympic Committee and Sports On the doping front, the foundation of the World magazine we hope to pass this inspiration on to anyone Confederation of Denmark, DIF Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has brought about new in the rest of the world who speaks up for a better Danish Association of Company Sport, DFIF standards for transparency and open public debate in the sporting life. Team Danmark, the national Danish elite fi ght against drugs in sport. sports institution Norwegian Union of Journalists Danish Union of Journalists More facts about Play the Game on page 47 “I hope it will (...) make people more optimistic about how sport can play and at a constructive role in society in every part of the world”. www.playthegame.org Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland. 2 playthegame | magazine 2008 ANTI-DOPING DOPING HARMS the children of athletes Many former doped East German athletes still suffer severe side effects, which have also been passed on to their children by Kirsten Sparre An athlete’s doping past may well come Over 90 per cent of back to haunt on his or her children. New the athletes experienced research on 52 doping victims from the strong damages to their former East Germany shows that the skeletons which makes it majority of their children have damages to almost impossible to hold their social, physical or mental health. And down a normal job. 27 out the damages are worse if it is the mother of the 52 former athletes that was drugged as an athlete. could not stand up for very long, 26 could not lift The research on the long-term effects of doping anything and 25 could not has been undertaken by Dr. Giselher Spitzer from walk normally. Holding things Humboldt University in Berlin. Over a period of was impossible for 21 of the two years, he interviewed 24 women and 28 men former athletes and eight who were all Olympic or elite-level athletes in could not sit for long. East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s and A quarter of the athletes Photo: Stockxpert.com were given different types of drugs to enhance interviewed suffered from their performances without their own positive cancer, and more than a third reported problems prevent similar systems from emerging in other knowledge or consent. of auto-aggression and thoughts and attempts at countries. But the catalogue of documented long- Presenting his fi ndings at Play the Game 2007, suicide. More than 60 per cent suffered from or term effects leads him to believe that the value Spitzer concluded that doping is dangerous not had had therapy for psychiatric issues. of health could be a strong motor for anti-doping only for the generation that was doped but also work. for the second generation, and can lead to severe Damaged children “The ’body capital’ is a very concrete guide mental health problems such as depressions, auto- Having children also turned out to be problematic for athletes who have to decide from competition aggression and suicidal tendencies. for the former athletes. Between them the to competition if they want to abuse drugs or interviewed athletes lost 15 children during not,” Spitzer said. Damaged athletes pregnancy and three children were stillborn. The In the former East Germany, such a choice did The long-term effects can be divided into two risk of miscarriage and stillbirth in the athletes was not exist. Athletes were told that the drugs were groups: Direct effects on the athletes themselves a staggering 32 times higher than in the normal vitamins and minerals and help for training and and effects on their children. German population. recreation. Still, a quarter of those Spitzer spoke Of the 69 children that survived, many to had actually stopped taking the drugs at some struggle with allergies, skin illnesses and asthma. point because they felt uncomfortable. A diffi cult One in ten children had crippled arms, legs or feet decision, Spitzer acknowledged, as none of them and almost as many had metabolic diseases. One knew what would happen to them if they defi ed in seven children had psychiatric disturbances. the system. The project in brief “There is a clear tendency: Children of mothers who where drugged typically suffer more • Research undertaken from 2004-2006 from multiple handicaps than children of drugged • Documentation of 60 life courses of fathers.
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