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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has issued the IOC Anti-Doping Rules which will be applied during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. This important document has been sent to the National Olympic Committees, the International Summer Sports Federations, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the national anti-doping agencies and the WADA-accredited laboratories.
The International Olympic Committee Anti-Doping Rules
Significant increase in number of tests
Allied with an increase in the number of tests: up from 3,600 in Athens to 4,500 in Beijing, whereby as a general rule all top five finishers plus a further two will be tested, the tougher rules serve as a clear demonstration of the IOC’s commitment to ensuring that athletes play fair. The tests include pre-competition controls, which have proved to be decisive. Of the 4,500 tests, around 700 to 800 will apply to urine EPO detection and 900 will be blood tests.
New elements Specific new elements of the rules include:
- an athlete may be notified and tested more than once during the same day;
- the fact that athletes who miss a test on two separate occasions during the Games, or on one occasion during the Games plus twice in the 18 months beforehand, will be considered to have committed an anti-doping rule violation;
- possession of any substance from the list of prohibited substances will constitute a violation (previously only a selection from the prohibited list applied).
From 27 July to 24 August
The period of the Olympic Games is defined as “the period commencing on the date of the opening of the Olympic Village for the Olympic Games”, namely 27 July 2008, up until and including the day of the Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Games on 24 August 2008.
Who does what ?
As the ruling body for the Olympic Games, the IOC will delegate the responsibility for implementing doping controls to the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) and WADA. They will act under the IOC’s authority. The IOC Medical Commission will be responsible for overseeing all doping control processes on-site, which will be in full compliance with the IOC Anti-Doping Rules, the World Anti-Doping Code and the International Standard for Testing (ISO9001:2000).
Processes on-site
The tests will be conducted at 41 doping control stations, 34 located in Beijing and 7 in the co-host cities. All venues will be equipped with a standard doping control station where blood and urine can be collected. The samples will be analysed in a period of between 24 and 72 hours only, depending on the kind of test.
World Anti-Doping Code
The World Anti-Doping Code
The 2008 Prohibited List - International Standard
These documents can be also found at www.olympic.org/medical
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A year ago Shannon Rowbury was riding an exercise bike while rehabbing a stress fracture of the left femur near her hip. The injury cost her the outdoor season. Now the Duke grad and 2007 NCAA indoor mile champion has the world’s fastest time in the 1,500 this year. She ran 4 minutes, 1.61 seconds Sunday in Carson, Calif., a personal best by nearly 11 seconds.
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Series on Olympic Scholarship Holders Beijing 2008: today Benjamin Boubketi:
In Athens, Benjamin Boukpeti was the first canoeist to represent Africa at the Olympic Games. In Beijing, he plans on becoming the first to win a medal. But he’ll also be cheering on a member of the French team – his older brother, Olivier. Benjamin and Olivier were brought up by a French mother and a Togolese father near Paris, and both learnt canoeing at their local club.
African champion
Olivier quickly established himself in the French flatwater team, but shoulder injuries hampered Benjamin’s progress, and in 2003 an opportunity presented itself to represent his father’s country and play a part in the French federation’s development programme. Since then, the 26-year-old has gone from strength to strength, reaching the Olympic slalom K-1 semi-finals in 2004, becoming African champion earlier this year and qualifying for Beijing in the process.
Business plans
Along the way, he has provided inspiration for a country and a continent where canoeing is developing apace as a sport. When he’s not negotiating the rapids, Boukpeti admits to a liking for travelling, socialising and good parties, but he’s equally dedicated to a career in business, which he’s been studying for the past three years in Toulouse near to his training centre. “I’ve been tremendously inspired by the business world,” he says.
Enthusiasm
“I’ve learnt about professionalism and how a team works, and all that has helped me enormously with my preparations.” He has a job lined up to start immediately after the Olympic Games, and if the enthusiasm that leaps off the pages of his own website is anything to go by, Boukpeti will go as far in his professional life as he already has in his chosen sport.
Confidence and level-headedness
A striking combination of confidence and level-headedness will also play its part. “In competition it’s important to remain as lucid as you can,” he explains. “You need a lot of technical skill to navigate the river, but it’s also very important to keep your humility. Every day the river tells us we are not the masters. What has given me the most satisfaction is just the feeling of having made progress year after year.”
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Staff members line up to make donations.Photo Gallery(BEIJING, May 20) — Staff members of the opera…
Gymnast David Durante knows how to get things done.
Whether he is trying to become eco-friendly or an Olympian, he takes the leap.
There is no way Durante wanted Beijing to be his first Olympics, so he got the ball rolling. After graduating from Stanford in 2004 with a degree in human biology, he sent himself to the Athens Olympics.
“I went on my own to get a sense of what the Olympics were like,” said Durante, 27, whose hometown is Garwood, N.J. “I watched the team competition and all-around finals. I tried to get the spectator view out of the way in 2004, so when I go in 2008 I can just focus on my job.”
Now, his job is to get on the team. Only six men plus two alternates will qualify for Beijing in a process that begins Thursday at the Visa national championships at Reliant Park.
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The Olympic Way
As well as discussing with LOCOG and its partners the progress made since the Commission’s last visit, the Commission members will use their vast experience of the Games and of the organisation of sports events to help guide and advise LOCOG in areas as varied as sport, marketing, media operations, workforce and the cultural Olympiad. They will also get the chance to see a number of the Olympic venues during their visit, including the Olympic Park site and Wembley, which will see the Commission walk down the Olympic Way to access this iconic stadium.
LONDON 2012
London was elected as the Host City for the Games of the XXX Olympiad on 6 July 2005 at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore. London eventually succeeded in the fourth round of voting taking 54 votes from a possible 104. London faced stiff opposition during the vote from the other four candidate cities: Paris, New York, Moscow and Madrid. There will be 26 sports on the Olympic Programme in London in 2012 and around 10,500 athletes.
Jenn Stuczynski, a 25-year-old from Churchville, N.Y., broke her American record in the pole vault at the Adidas Track Classic on Sunday, outshining Tyson Gay’s sweep of the 100 and 200 meters and other strong performances by a powerhouse field at the Adidas Track Classic.
Michael Phelps is widely recognized as America’s best male swimmer but the eight-time Olympic medalist still hasn’t beaten Aaron Peirsol in the backstroke. Peirsol held off Phelps again in the 200 backstroke but only by a fingertip, touching the wall in 1 minute, 55.81 seconds to win at the Santa Clara Grand Prix on Saturday night. Phelps was second at 1:55.84.
The Olympic Stadium for the Games in 2012 has been unveiled at a ceremony in the London Olympic Park. The 80,000-seat stadium will be the centre-piece of the 2012 Games venues and will host the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and athletics events. Once the Games are over, the arena will be converted into a 25,000-seat permanent stadium and will become a new home for athletics, combined with other sporting, community and educational uses.
Inspiring, Innovative and Sustainable
Commenting at the launch, the Chairman of
the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG),
Seb Coe, said: “We talk a lot about milestones, but few will be more exciting than this, the unveiling of the Olympic Stadium, which will be the centre-piece of our Olympic Park. The stadium will stand for everything we talked about in the bid: it will be inspiring, innovative and sustainable – the theatre within which the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games will be played out and will leave behind top class sporting and community facilities after the Games.”
Aircraft Carriers and SubmarinesThe
Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is working with the Team Stadium consortium to build the venue, but thanks to the strong progress already made by the ODA since it received the stadium site in July, construction work is expected to start two to three months early next year. Indeed, in the five months since the ODA started working on the area, 28 out of 33 buildings have already been demolished, and because ground levels vary across the site, some parts will have to be lowered by nine metres and others raised by five metres. This implies that over the next few months around 600,000 tonnes of soil will be taken away from the site to help create the construction platform for the stadium – the equivalent weight of around 27 aircraft carriers or 37 submarines.
LONDON 2012
London was elected as the host city for the Games of the XXX Olympiad on 6 July 2005 at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore. London eventually succeeded in the fourth round of voting, taking 54 votes from a possible 104. London faced stiff opposition during the vote from the other four candidate cities: Paris, New York, Moscow and Madrid. There will be 26 sports on the Olympic programme in London in 2012 and around 10,500 athletes.
Today, 27 July 2007, is exactly five years to the day from the Opening Ceremony of the
London 2012 Olympic Games. To mark this occasion, a number of events have been taking place over the course of the past week across Britain, including a
roadshow, where you can try out different sports, the creation of a giant number five using people on the Olympic Park and lectures and debates featuring Olympic personalities.
Inspirational Power of the Games
“Two years ago I sat in a room with 121 of my IOC colleagues, and witnessed a very bold vision for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. A vision to reach young people all around the world. To connect them with the inspirational power of the Games. So they are inspired to take up sport”, said IOC Coordination Commission Chairman Denis Oswald speaking on the five-years-to-go mark. “Now, two years down the line, I feel that vision is stronger than ever – and it’s exciting to see it being applied in so many practical ways. Initiatives like the UK School Games and the recent ‘Join In’ Roadshow – all these are in line with the promise to inspire young people through sport. Every time I visit the UK to complete my various sporting duties, I return feeling energised by the passion of the young athletes I meet, and the enthusiasm of the wider public.”
Speaking about the next five years and how London was using the Games as a catalyst for wider socio-economic change, Oswald noted, “It’s a challenging agenda, and the nature of Olympic project management dictates that things will get more complex still in the five years before the Games. But I have every confidence in the team in place. My colleagues and I have been deeply impressed with the professionalism and spirit at every level of the
London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG).” He continued, “If I have one piece of advice for the London organisers - five years out from the Opening Ceremony - it is to continue in just the same vein. It’s important they keep a calm and steady focus over the next five years. They’ll need to call on that British cool to respond with the necessary degree of perspective to all the issues arising. This, after all, is a project of scale, and one you can all be rightly proud of for generations to come.”
LONDON 2012
London was elected as the host city for the Games of the XXX Olympiad on 6 July 2005 at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore. London eventually succeeded in the fourth round of voting, taking 54 votes from a possible 104. London faced stiff opposition during the vote from the other four Candidate Cities: Paris, New York, Moscow and Madrid. There will be 26 sports on the Olympic programme in London in 2012 and around 10,500 athletes.
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