In ITU, we strongly believe in clean sport, because that’s what makes
our sport, and our athletes, great. Every year, we commit time, effort, energy
and a substantial budget to our anti-doping mission, and we will continue to do
so every year, following all the recommendations from IOC and WADA, increasing
the anti-doping tests taken at all of our triathlons and increasing the
education activities, for all elite and AG athletes.
I’ve spent a few days in Lausanne this week, along with Leslie Buchanan,
ITU’s Anti Doping Director, participating in the WADA’s Annual Symposium which
is a really interesting event to talk about how to engage athletes in Anti
Doping campaigns.
More than 700 experts from International Federations, Athlete
committees, anti doping national organizations, major Games organizers,
laboratories and government agencies participated in the Forum, and contributed
to raise everyone’s concerns about the situation that the world of sports is
living.
Our
organization is absolutely committed to eradicating the use of prohibited
substances and methods in triathlon. ITU
is also focused on protecting the clean athletes, another of the goals for the
next few years within the Olympic movement. ITU takes pride in the fact that so
little anti-doping rule violations have occurred in our sport in the past year.
Still, this does not mean our work is done. The fight against doping in sport
is onerous, it requires a long-term commitment and it requires cooperation and
collaboration.
ITU shall, therefore, strive to render its anti-doping program
even more successful than it has been in the past. And it is only with the
efforts, understanding and cooperation of every single person involved in our
sport that we can continue that way: keeping our sport clean and being proud of
our athletes around the world.
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