Anti-Doping
anti-doping
Sport has a unique place in our fractured world. Nothing makes a bigger contribution to people making connections, respecting and relying on each other, and discovering their own levels of confidence, resilience and strength, than sport. Sport has a special role in our lives, bringing us together solely for enjoyment.
The United Nations agrees. It recognises that ‘sport plays an important role in the protection of health, in moral, cultural and physical education and in promoting international understanding and peace’. Sport is valuable and anything valuable needs protecting.
Doping has been a major threat to sport for a long time. Not only is it a big risk to health but undermines the principle of fair play and the future of sport itself.
Powerchair Football players have a fundamental right to participate in doping-free sport. The Powerchair Football Anti-Doping Program is designed to protect that right.
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