Fight against doping, without leaving room for gray areas. The borderline between healthy, transparent, clean sport, adjectives dear to the definition of an activity that unites amateurs and professionals without distinction, has been drawn once again indelibly.
On the sidelines of the conference “Olympism and Sports Diplomacy. For a dialogue between peoples and cultures”, held today in Rome at the University of Rome “Foro Italico”, the President of the International Federation of Sports Medicine Prof. Fabio Pigozzi expressed strong concern about the possible introduction of the so-called “Enhanced Games”. International sporting event scheduled for 2025 in which athletes would not be subject to drug testing. A direction that would inevitably lead to an increase in health risks deriving from the possible incentive to use doping drugs. They would be challenges that are good for cinema, for an imaginative and reckless tale of events that must be kept very distant from reality and from the daily way of understanding sport.
Professor Pigozzi strongly supported the position expressed by the IOC and WADA itself according to which such an event would represent a very serious risk to the health of the participants, precisely because the athletes and their staff would not be subject to anti-doping regulations. “It is a dangerous and irresponsible initiative that worries FIMS regardless of its actual implementation. I reiterate that the protection of the athlete’s health, together with the defense of medical and sporting ethics, represent principles underlying the activity of every sports doctor” Pigozzi said. “At the next meeting in April in Malaysia, I will propose to the FIMS Executive Committee to formalize a position statement regarding this worrying initiative which will be shared with our national associations present on the five continents”. It is also astonishing that the person promoting such an event is an Australian entrepreneur, Aron D’Souza, a businessman with English residence, ready to trample on any principle of health and physical integrity in the name of an alleged spectacle. On which to grow a new market. But this has nothing to do with sport.
The International Federation of Sports Medicine FIMS – Fédération Internationale de Médecine du Sport is a non-profit organization founded in St. Moritz (Switzerland) in 1928 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since 1952, with headquarters in Lausanne and is made up of 120 National Sports Medical Federations.
The purpose of FIMS is to serve as an international representative body for sports medicine and related fields, to promote, develop and disseminate evidence-based sports medicine research and education in the field worldwide.
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