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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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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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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 International Hockey Federation (FIH) has announced the pools for the Women’s Hockey Tournament of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The 12 participating teams have been allocated to the following two pools:
Two Pools
Pool A: Netherlands, Australia, China, Spain, Korea, South Africa. Pool B: Argentina, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Great Britain, USA.
The match schedule for both the Men’s and Women’s Hockey Tournaments of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games will be released mid-May 2008.
Olympic Green Hockey Field
The hockey tournaments for both men and women will be held at the Olympic Green Hockey Field from 10 to 23 August 2008.
Olympic Express is the first Olympic Games “e-journal” for young people from all over the world. It’s interactive, contains a wide range of animated features and provides all the information you need to be able to follow the planet’s biggest sporting event.
Click here to discover the Olympic Express
From a bi-weekly…
From today until 8 August, you can learn all about the Olympic Games’ 35 different sporting disciplines. Olympic Express will come out twice a week. It will feature reports on individual stars, teams and technical details about specific sports; in fact, it will tell you everything you need to know to become an expert in any sport you like.
… to an e-daily
When the Beijing Games are actually underway, Olympic Express will become an e-daily, so that we can bring you news of all the competition’s events and sporting exploits, as well as stories, large and small, about the world’s greatest athletes.
Special editions
After the Games, on 25 August, we will publish a special edition featuring the best photos from the competition. Then, on 28 August, you will be able to read a special issue on the Paralympics, the Games for athletes with disabilities. The Paralympics generally take place just after the Olympic Games. This year they will be held in Beijing, starting on 6 September. Finally, on 1 September, our last issue will focus on the upcoming Youth Olympic Games. In 2010, young people will also be able to celebrate the Olympic spirit by taking part in their own Games.
The draw for the men’s and women’s football tournaments of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing divided the 16 men’s and the 12 women’s teams into seven different groups. The tournament is scheduled from 6 to 23 August 2008 in five different host cities. The qualification games take place in Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenyang and Qinhuangdao. The finals will be played in
Beijing. It is the only sports event that starts before the official Opening Ceremony of the Games, which will take place on 8 August 2008 at 8 p.m.
MEN
The men’s teams are composed of players under 23 years old, with the exception of three over-age players permitted. The two top teams from each group go through to the quarter-finals.
GROUP A (Host City Shanghai) – Ivory Coast, Argentina, Australia, Serbia
GROUP B (Tianjin) – Netherlands, Nigeria, Japan, USA
GROUP C (Shenyang) – China, New Zealand, Brazil, Belgium
GROUP D (Qinhuangdao) – South Korea, Cameroon, Honduras, Italy
WOMEN
There is no age limit for the women’s tournament. The two top teams are qualified for the quarter finals along with the best two third-placed teams.
GROUP E (Tianjin) – China, Swede, Argentina, Canada
GROUP F (Shenyang) -North Korea, Nigeria, Germany, Brazil
GROUP G (Qinhuangdao) – Norway, USA, Japan, New Zealand
The draws for the Olympic basketball tournament took place on Saturday 26 April in the Beijing Olympic basketball venue, the brand new 18,000-seat Wukesong Indoor Stadium. The qualified teams, both men and women, were drawn into two groups of six teams each, with the assistance of three-time Olympic champion Lisa Leslie of the USA, Olympic silver medallist Nathalie Porter from Australia, and Chinese stars Whang Zhi Zhi and Sui Feifei. Find below the result of the draw.
Draw for the women’s tournament
Already qualified for Beijing 2008 are: Australia (World champion), China (host), Korea (Asian Champion), Mali (African Champion), New Zealand (Oceania runner-up), Russia (European champion) and USA (Champion of the Americas). The remaining five women’s berths for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will be decided at the 12-team FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women that will take place in Madrid (Spain), from 9 to 15 June 2008, featuring the following participants: Senegal and Angola (Africa), Cuba, Brazil and Argentina (Americas), Japan and Chinese Taipei (Asia), Spain, Belarus, Latvia and Czech Republic (Europe) and Fiji (Oceania). The draw for the remaining five qualified teams will be held on 15 June 2008 in Madrid, Spain. The women’s tournament takes place between 9 and 23 August 2008.
Group A: Australia, Korea, Russia, Qualifier A, Qualifier B and Qualifier C
Group B: China, Mali, New Zealand, USA, Qualifier D and Qualifier E
Draw for the men’s tournament
Already qualified for Beijing 2008 are the following nine teams: Angola (African champion), Argentina (Americas runner-up), Australia (Oceania champion), China (host), Iran (Asian champion), Lithuania (European bronze medallist), Russia (European champion), Spain (world champion) and USA (Champion of the Americas). The men’s tournament takes place between 10 and 24 August 2008.
The remaining three men’s berths for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will be decided in the 12-team FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men that will take place in Athens (Greece), from 14 to 20 July, featuring the following participants: Cameroon and Cape Verde (Africa), Puerto Rico, Brazil and Canada (Americas), Lebanon and Korea (Asia), Greece, Germany, Croatia, and Slovenia (Europe) and New Zealand (Oceania). The draw for the remaining three qualified teams will be held on 20 July 2008 in Athens, Greece.
The
Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) has begun a full week of meetings in Beijing (5-10 April), which will culminate with
the 205 National Olympic Committees (NOC) of the Olympic Movement participating at the XVI ANOC General Assembly. So that the NOCs can prepare for the Olympic Games in the best possible conditions, every four years, ANOC holds its General Assembly in the host city of the upcoming summer Games, which is why the meeting is taking place in Beijing for the first time this year. In addition to the General Assembly, ANOC will also hold an Executive Council meeting and meetings of the regional associations. A joint meeting between the
IOC Executive Board and the NOCs will also be held at the end of this week.
Confidence
This week’s ANOC meetings, as well as looking at issues affecting the world’s NOCs, will focus on the upcoming Olympic Games, with nearly half the agenda items dealing with this topic. At a press conference following the Executive Council meeting, ANOC President and IOC member
Mario Vázquez Raña said that his organisation did not have any major concerns as far as the upcoming Games were concerned, and that he expected even fewer problems as the Games drew closer. He added to his comments by saying how confident he was that these would be marvellous Olympic Games.
Serve Humanity
Vázquez Raña also pointed out during the press conference that he had seen many improvements in the city of Beijing over the years, and how he was sure that the Games had contributed to that progress. He concluded the media briefing by saying that he hoped that the Beijing Games would serve humanity, allowing for greater understanding between the peoples of the world, and how these Games would also be of great benefit to China. As the ANOC meetings progress this week, it will undoubtedly be a chance for the NOCs of the world to continue that process of understanding with each other.
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