Doping tests during the games
At a meeting on 21 September
1998, the Organizing Committee of the 1999 NatWest Island Games decided that doping
tests will be carried out during the games in 1999.
It is important that all contestants
should immediately contact their doctor and perhaps also the doctor of their Island Games
team. This is so that you can check that any medicine that you are taking is not classed
as a doping substance.
Current doping list
The Swedish Sports Confederation has now put up the IOC’s new doping list on the
Internet. In Sweden it came into force on 1 May 1999. In the rest of the world it has been
valid since 1 January 1999. It is therefore strange that the IOC still has the old list
from 1998 on its website. We warn all participants not to trust the list on the IOC site.
If you want the latest version of the list, download it from the Swedish Sports
Confederation website, where there is also an original English version. It is conceivable
that sports organizations on the individual islands have done their own translations. http://www.svenskidrott.se/rf/doping/listor/iok_listor.htm
Doping tests
As previously announced, doping tests will be performed during the week of the games.
Peter Ahlvin, medical director of the games on Gotland, stresses how important it is that
everyone who wants to take part should check his or her own medication and current drugs
(e.g. nose drops, asthma medicines). It would be deplorable and unnecessary if anyone was
caught in a doping test because they had omitted to check their medicines.
Doping conference
Since there will be doping tests during the
NatWest Island Games on Gotland, and since this issue has been the subject of considerable
discussion in the organization, a conference on doping will be held in conjunction with
this year’s games. The conference will be at Wisby Hotel on Sunday 27 June at 6 p.m.
All islands are invited to send interested sports leaders and above all their medical
personnel. An invitation will shortly be sent out to all member islands. |
