Kiefer Ravena, Mikee Cojuangco and a number of national sports associations, government and local government unit officials attended the Philippine Sports Commission’s 2018 National Anti-Doping Summit yesterday, with Southeast Asian Regional Anti-Doping Organization Director General Gobinathan Nair leading a formidable line-up of speakers.
Around 100 participants from NSAs, universities, colleges, LGUs and coaches attended the first day of the three-day scheduled activity on Anti-Doping in Sports at the Philippine International Convention Center here in Manila.
“The end goal really is to have a doping-free sporting community,” said PSC-Philippine National Anti-Doping Organization Head Dr. Alejandro Pineda, who together with the Philippine Sports Institute Director Marc Edward Velasco, led the organizing of this twin-event.
Velasco, echoing the sentiments of PSC Chairman William Ramirez, said that as the government agency for sports, the PSC takes the lead in reaching out to the public with regards to Anti-Doping. “Education is key,” remarked Velasco explaining the objectives of the event.
Ravena, who came in as a participant and one of the athletes, who recently had an incident due to inadvertent use of substance that is in the restricted list, encouraged athletes to take interest in Anti-Doping.
International Olympic Committee memberCojuangco, who is with the Education Committee of the IOC, extolled the importance of educating the public about anti-doping reinforcing the “play true, play fair, play clean” campaign of the World Anti-Doping Agency. “If we are not true, we will be destroying every reason why we are in sports in the first place,” explained Cojuangco.
Matters like code compliance and monitoring, supplementation, legal considerations, results management and doping control processes, ergogenic and applications.
The two-day seminar on Anti-Doping for Coaches start today.
