Efter dopningsskandalerna i sommarens OS ska reglerna ses över.
Ordförande för kommissionen är Arne Ljungqvist. Ett stort steg togs på onsdagskvällen då det offentliggjordes att Capsaicin klassas som dopning.
- Hästsporten har inte riktigt hängt med i svängarna, säger Ljungqvist.
Till sin hjälp i kommissionen kommer han bland annat att ha Sven Holmberg, vice ordföranden i FEI, Internationella ridsportförbundet.
Ljungqvist har en minst sagt diger meritlista. För närvarande är han vice ordförande i Wada, World Anti Doping Agency, och ordförande i IOK:s medicinska kommitté.
Det här blir dock första gången som han jobbar med dopningsfrågor som rör djur.
- När det gäller ryttarna är det inga som helst problem. De går att jämföra med vilken idrottsgrupp som helst. Problemet kommer när vi diskuterar hästarna. En idrottare kan ta ett eget ansvar när det till exempel gäller smärtlindring. Han eller hon kan välja om de ska använda sig av det. Det beslutet kan inte en häst ta, säger Arne Ljungqvist.Han medger att han funderade både en och två gånger när frågan kom om han var intresserad av att leda kommissionen.
- Jag ville kontrollera att mina andra uppdragsgivare inte tyckte att det fanns någon konflikt i att jag tog mig an det här uppdraget, men de var snarare väldigt positiva. Att ridsporten fortfarande är ett steg efter i dopningsjakten förvånar inte Ljungqvist.
- De ska inte känna sig utpekade. Flera andra förbund har inte heller riktigt hängt med.
OS i Aten 2004 blev ett svart mästerskap för hoppsporten.
Resultatlistorna fick göras om sedan det visat sig att både den individuella guldmedaljören Cian O'Connor och tysken Ludger Beerbaum, som ingick i guldlaget i laghoppningen, hade ridit på dopade hästar.
Att ridsporten blev tagen på sängen blev tydligt efter skandalen. Men, efter en skakig start, insåg FEI att något måste göras.Sven Holmberg fick i uppdrag att skapa ett nytt dopningsreglemente.I reglementet, som var klart 2005, skiljer man mellan dopning och otillåten medicinering.Dopning är när hästen får prestationshöjande medel. Då ska avstängningen vara två år. Otillåten medicinering, där huvudsaken är att lindra hästens smärta, ger en avstängning på tre-fyra månader. Det sistnämnda är speciellt för ridsporten och har tillkommit för att värna djurskyddet. Trots FEI:s försök att komma till rätta med sportens problem slutade OS i Hongkong 2008 med en ny jätteskandal.Sex hästar fastnade i dopningskontroller. Fem av dem på grund av medlet Capsaicin. Det utvinns ur chilifrukter och kan både användas för smärtlindring och för retningar i huden för att öka reaktionsförmågan, så kallad kemisk barrering.Skandalen visade att dopningsreglementet måste ses över.
Medlet fanns nämligen upptaget både på listan för otillåten medicinering och dopningslistan.Sven Holmberg har nyss kommit hem till Säffle efter FEI:s konferens i Buenos Aires. Där togs det formella beslutet att tillsätta den nya dopningskommissionen. Arbetet ska inledas redan i december. Men redan på onsdagskvällen kom det oväntade beskedet att innan kommissionens arbete inleds har man genomfört en förändring.Capsaicin räknas, med omedelbar verkan, som dopningsmedel.
- Det fanns ingen anledning att dra ut på frågan. När det gällde det här ville vi agera snabbt, förklarar Sven Holmberg.Kommissionen kommer dock inte att sakna arbetsuppgifter.
- Vi ska göra en ordentlig översyn, säger Sven Holmberg.
Är ni oroliga för att er OS-status ska vara i fara efter de här skandalerna?
- Nej, förutsatt att vi gör något åt problemet. Det är naturligtvis glädjande att Arne Ljungqvist tackat ja till att leda arbetet. Det ger oss möjligheten att knyta ihop vårt antidopningsprogram med Wadas.
Publicerad 2008-11-27 14:59// DN Sport Malin Fransson och Sarah Thunholm
fredag 28 november 2008
tisdag 25 november 2008
Montgomery tog OS-guld dopad

Publicerad 2008-11-24 18:37 //DN Sport
Amerikanske sprintern Tim Montgomery som stängdes av för dopning trots att han aldrig testades positiv erkänner nu att han hade dopat sig med testosteron och andra hormonpreparat inför OS i Sydney 2000.
- Jag har en guldmedalj som jag sitter på som jag inte tog tack vare min egen förmåga, säger Montgomery, som var med i det vinnande laget på korta stafetten i Sydney.Det amerikanska guldlaget kan nu bli av med sina medaljer.
- Jag vill inte ta ifrån någon annan deras prestation, det handlar bara om min egen. Och jag ber om ursäkt till de andra medlemmarna i stafettlaget om det blir så.
Erkännandet finns med i en intervju med Montgomery som ska sändas på tisdagen i den amerikanska tv-kanalen HBO.
Montgomery åkte aldrig fast i ett dopningstest. Det var hans inblandning i den så kallade Balco-skandalen som gjorde att han blev avstängd. Just nu avtjänar han ett nioårigt fängelsestraff för checkförfalskning och heroinlangning.
Till skillnad mot sin förra sambo, sprinterdrottningen Marion Jones, har Montgomery tidigare vägrat erkänna dopningen.
- Varför gjorde jag det? Det är en fråga som jag tänker på varje dag, när jag vaknar och varje kväll när jag somnar.
//Från TT
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Doping i Sport 08
Viagra is the next big thing in sports doping. Uh-oh.

History will mark these as troubled days, and not just because of a free falling global economy, rising world temperatures, and Madonna thinking a Christmas tree could be worn as a dress. No, the real sign of doom comes from athletes gobbling Viagra because they believe it gives them a competitive edge.
The World Anti-Doping Agency is financing a study at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania to see if the miracle pilldilates all of an athlete's blood vesselsand unfairly increases his capacity to carry oxygen. There's sound science behind this. In 2006, researchers at Stanford published a study showing that, at a simulated altitude of 12,700 feet, Viagra improved the performance [snicker] of 10K cyclists by nearly 40 percent. In May of this year, at the Giro d'Italia, Italy's biggest bike race, a cyclist by the name of Andrew Moletta was suspended after authorities found syringes hidden in toothpaste tubes and 82 Viagra pills. Victor Conte, of BALCO fame, once boasted of having all his athletes on the stuff. (Given steroids' side effects, Viagra in this case may have been used for the purposes Bob Dole intended.) Statements like Conte's are why the University of Miami is currently investigating whether Viagra boosts performance at lower altitudes.
A few thoughts here.
Number one: How badly must you want to win to suffer the lingering effects of one Viagra too many? Have none of these athletes seen Chris Rock's I Think I Love My Wife? The scene where even The Economist can't tamp down expectations? He had to go to the hospital for that, and doctors did something there that cannot be repeated in polite company. This scares off no one?
Number two: Because the answer to that last question is no, and because WADA seems to be focusing its Viagra investigation on the spandex sports—cycling, cross country skiing, etc—how exactly do these athletes, you know, hide the evidence of doping?
Number three: and let's just get real gritty here: If they are somehow hiding it, how painful is that? Surely that crosses out any gain from increased oxygen flow.
THE MORNING ACCORDING TO US
Viagra is the next big thing in sports doping. Uh-oh.
by Paul Kix
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Doping i Sport 08
måndag 24 november 2008
Vad Avgör Straffet?
Straffsatser inom doping är ett debatterat ämne och notiser som nedan gör förståelsen för detta fusk och dess påföljd om än, mer obegripligt. Att man inte spelar rent spel av att dopa sig, det har vi alla konstaterat. Att en direkt konsekves till sitt handlande bör handla om avstägning det kräver vi. Men, hur kan vi motivera att en förhandling av, låt oss säga, att man namnger medhjälpare och producenter, skall ge en förmildrande dom eller värre än, en klapp på axeln för att man är "så ärlig"!? Detta är för mig obegripligt. Den person som dopar sig, stoppar i, trycker i eller injicerar sitt otillåtna preparat är ytterst ansvarig! Den personen har gjort ett val och måste stå för konsekvensterna av sitt handlande. Kanske bör vi återigen se över de finstilta i kontrakt gällande agerande om man åker dit för doping. Att man inte bara blir, som inom cykelsporten, återbetalningsskyldig och avstängd. Man skall likväl förväntas att ange de personer involverade omkring en. Något att tänka på!
Kohl will reveal doping source, manager says
Reuters, Sunday November 23 2008
PARIS, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Austrian Bernhard Kohl, who tested positive for the new generation of erythropoietin, CERA, during the Tour de France, will reveal to Austrian doping officials how he got the drug, his manager said. "Bernhard is willing to cooperate and he will tell about how he got the substance and how and where he used it," his manager Stefan Matschiner told Cyclingnews (www.cyclingnews.com).Kohl, the Tour's best climber this year and third overall, is due to appear before the Austrian Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) on Monday.He was supposed to join the Silence Lotto team from Gerolsteiner during the close season but the contract was declared void after it was revealed that retroactive tests showed traces of CERA (Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator) in his blood.
Kohl faces a two-year suspension from the sport, a sanction that could be cut if he cooperates with anti-doping authorities.The length of the suspension is expected to be announced immediately after the NADA hearing.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Clare Fallon)
Kohl will reveal doping source, manager says
Reuters, Sunday November 23 2008
PARIS, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Austrian Bernhard Kohl, who tested positive for the new generation of erythropoietin, CERA, during the Tour de France, will reveal to Austrian doping officials how he got the drug, his manager said. "Bernhard is willing to cooperate and he will tell about how he got the substance and how and where he used it," his manager Stefan Matschiner told Cyclingnews (www.cyclingnews.com).Kohl, the Tour's best climber this year and third overall, is due to appear before the Austrian Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) on Monday.He was supposed to join the Silence Lotto team from Gerolsteiner during the close season but the contract was declared void after it was revealed that retroactive tests showed traces of CERA (Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator) in his blood.
Kohl faces a two-year suspension from the sport, a sanction that could be cut if he cooperates with anti-doping authorities.The length of the suspension is expected to be announced immediately after the NADA hearing.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Clare Fallon)
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Dopingdebatt 2008
fredag 21 november 2008
Vad var det vi sa! - Förbundets beslut måste ändras!
... och äntligen ser vi en reaktion från IAAF som nu är på kollisionkurs med Ryska förbundet. Ni kommer väl ihåg vår blogg// "Retroaktiv Reaktion och Reaktionärt Hanterande" //Publ. 21 oktober Dopingdebatt 2008.
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IAAF on collision course with Russia over length of doping bans handed out to athletes The International Association of Athletics Federations are set to challenge the length and the timing of the bans handed out to top Russian athletes who were found to have committed doping violations ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
By Tom Knight// Last Updated: 8:05PM GMT 20 Nov 2008
The athletes include middle distance runners Yelena Soboleva, Svetlana Cherkasova, Yulia Fomenko and Tatyana Tomashova as well as hammer thrower Gulfiya Khanafeyeva and the European discus champion, Darya Pishchalnikova.There have been 16 Russian athletes penalised for doping offences in recent months but those under the spotlight in Monte Carlo were part of a group of seven found guilty of manipulating urine tests following a year-long under-cover operation using DNA analysis by the IAAF.Their absence from the Olympics was a major coup for the IAAF but the world governing body were understood to have been astonished by the Russian federation's decision to punish the violations with two-year bans backdated to April and May 2007.
This would enable the athletes to compete at next summer's world championships in Berlin and, according to a source close to the IAAF, is considered "totally unacceptable".A meeting of the IAAF Council, which starts in Monte Carlo, is expected to rule that the bans will be challenged.Having long since abandoned its own costly arbitration process, the IAAF will take the matter to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.The challenge to the Russian punishments will ask for the bans to be further backdated by at least another year, to when the doping violation was first committed.It could also push for the ban to be four years because of the seriousness of the offence.The IAAF, who will introduce four-year bans for serious doping violations when the new World Anti-Doping Agency code comes into force in January, will not want to see the Russian athletes competing again until August 2010.The IAAF Council will also hear the result of their president Lamine Diack's recent meeting with the International Olympic Committee president, Jacques Rogge.The pair had much to talk about following their public disagreement over the future of London's Olympic stadium.The Council meeting comes as the world's top athletes, a host of legends and the Olympic champions convene in the principality for the end-of-year gala dinner on Sunday Nov 23.Usain Bolt, the Jamaican sprinter who won three gold medals with three world records in Beijing is the favourite to be crowned male athlete of the year and win the performance of the year trophy.The shortlist for the female athlete of the year award includes Tirunesh Dibaba, Yelena Isinbayeva and Pamela Jelimo.
http://renidrott.blogspot.com/2008/10/retroaktiv-reaktion-och-reaktionrt.html
IAAF on collision course with Russia over length of doping bans handed out to athletes The International Association of Athletics Federations are set to challenge the length and the timing of the bans handed out to top Russian athletes who were found to have committed doping violations ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
By Tom Knight// Last Updated: 8:05PM GMT 20 Nov 2008
The athletes include middle distance runners Yelena Soboleva, Svetlana Cherkasova, Yulia Fomenko and Tatyana Tomashova as well as hammer thrower Gulfiya Khanafeyeva and the European discus champion, Darya Pishchalnikova.There have been 16 Russian athletes penalised for doping offences in recent months but those under the spotlight in Monte Carlo were part of a group of seven found guilty of manipulating urine tests following a year-long under-cover operation using DNA analysis by the IAAF.Their absence from the Olympics was a major coup for the IAAF but the world governing body were understood to have been astonished by the Russian federation's decision to punish the violations with two-year bans backdated to April and May 2007.
This would enable the athletes to compete at next summer's world championships in Berlin and, according to a source close to the IAAF, is considered "totally unacceptable".A meeting of the IAAF Council, which starts in Monte Carlo, is expected to rule that the bans will be challenged.Having long since abandoned its own costly arbitration process, the IAAF will take the matter to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.The challenge to the Russian punishments will ask for the bans to be further backdated by at least another year, to when the doping violation was first committed.It could also push for the ban to be four years because of the seriousness of the offence.The IAAF, who will introduce four-year bans for serious doping violations when the new World Anti-Doping Agency code comes into force in January, will not want to see the Russian athletes competing again until August 2010.The IAAF Council will also hear the result of their president Lamine Diack's recent meeting with the International Olympic Committee president, Jacques Rogge.The pair had much to talk about following their public disagreement over the future of London's Olympic stadium.The Council meeting comes as the world's top athletes, a host of legends and the Olympic champions convene in the principality for the end-of-year gala dinner on Sunday Nov 23.Usain Bolt, the Jamaican sprinter who won three gold medals with three world records in Beijing is the favourite to be crowned male athlete of the year and win the performance of the year trophy.The shortlist for the female athlete of the year award includes Tirunesh Dibaba, Yelena Isinbayeva and Pamela Jelimo.
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Dopingdebatt 2008
tisdag 18 november 2008
"First and foremost I am a doper"

Cyclist relates how doping damaged his career, life 11/17/2008 9:20:26 AM By Sarah Doty Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN
On May 29, 2005, Canadian mountain biker Chris Sheppard injected recombinant erythropoietin (rEPO) for the first time.
The next day, at 7:30 a.m., the Canadian Centre For Ethics In Sport (CCES) knocked on his door for an out-of-competition random drug test. EPO is a drug that builds endurance by boosting the amount of oxygen-rich red blood cells. His career was permanently tainted.
Sheppard was in Rochester Saturday to share his story with Sports Medicine professionals at the 18th annual Symposium on Sports Medicine. "First and foremost I am a doper," said Sheppard in his presentation. "Before being caught using EPO I was addicted to one substance: cycling. I am not here to give you excuses for what I did, but maybe to shed some light on why I made that fateful decision that will be with me to my grave." The 10-time Canadian National Team mountain bike racer had been racing clean for 17 years before an accident on July 27, 2004 -- a truck that ran a stop sign and hit him -- left him with a concussion, whiplash, severe lingering back pain, and depression. "The worst part about this injury was it extends past racing and touches every part of life," Sheppard said. "For many years cycling was a way to get away from it all," he said. But after his accident, and an injury-plagued six years, he just couldn't snap out of his depression."Cycling is a tough sport and after 17 years of racing clean and pointing the finger, I gave up during hard times," Sheppard said. "In my head, I wanted what was taken away from me."Instead, he got a two-year suspension, loss of sponsors and friends, and a permanent ineligibility of receiving funding from the Canadian Federal Government as punishment for doping."In a way it was almost relieving, and funny," he said about getting caught. "With all the bad luck I had had (the previous) six years, it seemed like I was tempting fate."
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Doping i Sport 08
måndag 17 november 2008
Gene doping - The Battleground!

Myostatin - What is it?
A protein that inhibits muscle growth in animals and humans.
How can it benefit athletes?
If the gene responsible for myostatin is switched off, muscles will increase in size.
Does gene modification work?
Successful in trials on mice and dogs and set to go into commercial use as a veterinary treatment next year. Untested on humans but known to produce an immune reaction, so risky.
Can it be detected?
No, but researchers hope to find ways of testing for the virus used to deliver the gene.
IGF-1 - What is it?
Insulin-like growth factor 1, a natural protein that promotes muscle- growth and repair but declines with age.
How can it benefit athletes?
Over-production of IGF-1 will cause an increase in muscle mass and strength.
Does gene modification work?
Successful in animal trials but human application still being tested. Has to be injected locally into muscle because high levels in the bloodstream cause problems with other tissues.
Can it be detected?
Not without a muscle biopsy.
EPO- what is it?
A naturally occurring protein that produces red blood cells.
How can it benefit athletes?
A richer supply of oxygen-carrying blood cells reduces fatigue in muscles, which makes EPO so beloved of endurance athletes such as road cyclists and cross-country skiers.
Does gene modification work?
Offers prospect of permanent source of extra EPO rather than short-term burst. Trials on monkeys have had mixed results, with some producing dangerously high amounts of EPO and others developing immune responses. Very risky for humans at present.
Can it be detected?
Preliminary research suggests it will be detectable to drug-testers.
What if...genetically modified animals were allowed into sport?
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Doping i Sport 08
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