CELAD and CPE join forces to fight doping

The director of the Spanish Commission for the Fight against Doping in Sports (CELAD), Carlos Peraltaand the president of the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), Alberto Duranhas signed an agreement guaranteeing the collaboration of both entities for the next four years, until the Los Angeles 2028 Games.

Through this agreement, CELAD and the CPE undertake all possible coordination mechanisms to promote initiatives to combat doping in sport.

In the words of Carlos Peraltadirector of CELAD, “having this type of agreement with the CPE is of great interest in relation to the fight and prevention against doping, because it is a very important institution made up of fourteen sports federations that are included in the official program of Paralympic Games, in addition to two non-Paralympic federations with highly competitive activities for people with disabilities. “This means that our messages can directly affect a very high number of athletes and support staff,” he said.

The president of CPE, Alberto Duran, said that “any preventive action against doping implies direct protection of the health of each athlete.” “Collaboration with CELAD in this area is very important because it guarantees that the information that our Committee members receive is updated and comes from an official and authorized source, in addition to providing them with consultation channels to they will be safer and accompanied with respect to both procedural and legal aspects. We hope that this agreement forms the basis for future synergies that allow us to jointly fight the scourge of doping in sports,” said he.

Through this agreement, CELAD undertakes to provide at least two annual training sessions, taking into account the particularities of travel presented by people with disabilities: one of which will take place in person with the possibility of online meetings, and one will be conducted. exclusively online.

Information, outreach initiatives and awareness-raising publications may also be carried out on competitions deemed most relevant within the official CPE sports calendar. These training sessions will focus on specific aspects of doping prevention, current anti-doping regulations and the principles, values ​​and ethics of clean sport.

In specific aspects of doping prevention, the following knowledge will be passed on: rights and responsibilities of athletes and support staff; the principle of strict liability and anti-doping rule violations; the list of prohibited substances and methods; the consequences of doping; urine, blood, dried blood and biological passport control procedures; the requirements of control groups and the most relevant communication channels to achieve this goal. In addition, in these sessions, emphasis will be placed on the risk associated with the consumption of dietary supplements, the use of medications, the processing of Authorizations for Therapeutic Use, the procedure for finding athletes and the ADAMS system , as well as all those sections indicated at the time by the World Anti-Doping Agency as priorities.

The areas where said collaboration will be carried out are in the concentrations and/or competitions where the athletes and CPE support staff are located, as well as any other formula considered appropriate, prioritizing the excellence criteria to be able to obtain doping prevention training for as many athletes and support staff as possible.

For its part, the Spanish Paralympic Committee is committed to providing the best locations for the development of awareness-raising activities, training and dissemination of the program, before and during the competition, thus giving visibility to the actions of CELAD . Also, they will be responsible for classifying the target audience to which the aforementioned training activities are directed to different groups.

Both institutions know the power of good use of digital dissemination when it comes to raising awareness about an issue, especially among younger audiences. Therefore, the signing of this agreement also includes a commitment regarding the dissemination of audiovisual content and promotional elements in favor of a fair and clean sport, against doping. In this way, both entities will promote respect and the value of personal effort and teamwork, will highlight the importance of their transfer in daily life and will spread messages with a content of education and training in the subject.