The 2007 World Conference on Doping in sport concluded last Saturday with the “Madrid Resolution” on the fight against doping in sport and a new version of the World Anti-Doping Code ready for 1 January 2009. The new code will have wording that will assign a ban of up to four years (currently up to two) for specified prohibited substances among other changes.
Several rowers were in attendance, notably
- Denis Oswald, FISA President
- Matt Smith, FISA Executive Director
- Alain Lacoste, Chair of the FISA Sports Medicine Commission
- Algirdas Raslanas, Chair of the FISA Youth Rowing Commission and Director General of the Lithuanian Ministry of Sports
- Peter Kokas, member of the FISA Sports Medicine Commission representing the Hungarian National Paralympic Committee
- Axel Urhausen, former member of the FISA Sports Medicine Commission representing Luxembourg’s Anti-Doping Commission
- Yiannis Karras, President of the Greek Rowing Federation representing the Greek Anti-Doping Agency
- Richard Budgett, 1984 Olympic Rowing Gold medallist representing the International Bobsled Federation
Not to mention Richard Pound, President of WADA who rowed as a young man in St. Catharines, Canada and Dr. Jacques Rogge, President of the IOC who spent a lot of time at his father’s rowing club in Ghent, Belgium but decided to follow some other sports than that of his father.
The new WADA code is available here.
The Madrid resolution is available here.
Information about the conference is available here. The World Rowing team values feedback. |
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