CUIDAR promotes anti-doping action and celebrates Fair Play Day
The Unified Center for Identification and Development of Performance Athletes promotes an Athlete School on Anti-Doping in the red-black rowing team
By Raiana Monteiro - in
On April 10th, WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) celebrates Play True Day, or Fair Play Day, together with athletes, national and international anti-doping organizations, federations, and other sports entities around the world. Fair Play Day is dedicated to communicating with sports communities about the importance of fighting doping in sport and its harm to athlete health and the spirit of sportsmanship.
Anti-doping organizations, international sports federations, and educational institutions are promoting events dedicated to the topic or incorporating the topic, which is so relevant in the sports world, into existing events within their organizations. Flamengo was not left out of the initiative, promoting, through CUIDAR, the Athletes' School on Anti-Doping, initially focusing on rowing. The Center also intends to expand the topic to other sports in future meetings.
"The lecture covers all topics related to doping control that are of interest to athletes. We begin with the definition, then the violations, of which there are 10, the first being the presence of prohibited substances or methods in the athlete's sample (urine or blood). We then discuss the listing, punishment, and the TUE, which is the authorization for therapeutic use granted by the ABCD TUE committee in cases where an athlete has a medical condition that requires taking a medication on the list. We then discuss the athlete's rights and responsibilities, and finally, we show what a control looks like," explained Dr. Bruno Borges da Fonseca, doping control officer and coordinator for the CBF and CONMEBOL in Rio de Janeiro.
Flamengo's Olympic Sports Department is always one step ahead in anti-doping information, as the land sports manager, Luisa Parente, is an Auditing Member of the Anti-Doping Sports Court of Justice, a unique court that deals exclusively with doping cases in Brazil, linked to the Special Secretariat for Sports, of the Ministry of Citizenship.
"This Court is composed of Chambers, each with three hearing members. I currently preside over the Second Chamber, which conducts evidentiary hearings and judgments on cases brought before the Court. These are the cases that reach the ABCD, the Brazilian Doping Control Authority," explains Luisa.
"The club's anti-doping knowledge is always up-to-date. I bring this information to the table as we hold meetings with other managers, so everyone is up-to-date on developments and new rules. Training clubs have a responsibility to provide anti-doping education, so we're working hard on this with CUIDAR and multidisciplinary teams. Everyone, besides the athlete, is subject to the code's rules and may be involved in a potential trial, depending on the guidance they provided or their involvement in an athlete's adverse test result, which would be doping," the manager emphasizes.
The inspiration for WADA's Play True Day came from the institution's South American Education Conference in 2013, which included the participation of 17 South American countries, forming a sort of task force to publicize the calendar. However, over the years, several other countries, mainly in Europe, began adopting Play True Day, especially in 2016, when they officially celebrated Fair Play Day.