IOC rule 45
With less than 450 days to go to the next Olympics the excitement is rising.
Planning, schedules, programs for coaches and athletes must be in place since the qualifying period is getting shorter and shorter. Suddenly, some people realize that for them it is a no go. Why? With the last Olympics the IOC sanctioned a new rule, that is. This rule 45 rules out competitors to the next Olympics who have been sanctioned for a doping offense with six month or more. Some Olympic national bodies even ban athletes who have been sanctioned for a doping offense.
I was thinking about this when I saw Chambers run 10"01 on the new Mondo track at the Ibirapuera track yesterday. The British Olympic Association's by-law 25 brings a lifetime ban for any athlete found guilty of a doping offence for the Olympics. He will not run in the Olympics unless he wins in court.
Earlier in my role as national coach for combined events I was aware of this rule when Lucimara Silva is coming back from a suspension in June 2011. She can qualify for WC and PAG but not OG.
When I read that Dutch hurdler Sedoc is facing a hearing about his whereabouts I had to think about this again. The code of the World Anti-Doping Agency means that all top athletes on the drug-testing register have to be available for one hour a day (between 6am and 11pm), three months in advance, to their testers. Missing a test is a strike. Three strikes is out! Sedoc claims he loves the sport, did not take anything wrong, but just forget to update his wherabouts. It will give lots of trouble and things to think about.
But rule 45 is clear. I hope to see Greg Sedoc run in an orange vest in the 2012 Olympics. But time is running out.
www.olympic.org/Documents/Fight_against_doping/Rules_and_regulations/Rule_45-eng-08-05-2008.pdf
aanuvulling:
Sedoc moet nog voor de tuchtcie. verschijnen en loopt tot die tijd gewoon wedstrijden.
Op 20 mei 2011 stond in de persverklaring van de Atletiekunie dit
Planning, schedules, programs for coaches and athletes must be in place since the qualifying period is getting shorter and shorter. Suddenly, some people realize that for them it is a no go. Why? With the last Olympics the IOC sanctioned a new rule, that is. This rule 45 rules out competitors to the next Olympics who have been sanctioned for a doping offense with six month or more. Some Olympic national bodies even ban athletes who have been sanctioned for a doping offense.
I was thinking about this when I saw Chambers run 10"01 on the new Mondo track at the Ibirapuera track yesterday. The British Olympic Association's by-law 25 brings a lifetime ban for any athlete found guilty of a doping offence for the Olympics. He will not run in the Olympics unless he wins in court.
Earlier in my role as national coach for combined events I was aware of this rule when Lucimara Silva is coming back from a suspension in June 2011. She can qualify for WC and PAG but not OG.
When I read that Dutch hurdler Sedoc is facing a hearing about his whereabouts I had to think about this again. The code of the World Anti-Doping Agency means that all top athletes on the drug-testing register have to be available for one hour a day (between 6am and 11pm), three months in advance, to their testers. Missing a test is a strike. Three strikes is out! Sedoc claims he loves the sport, did not take anything wrong, but just forget to update his wherabouts. It will give lots of trouble and things to think about.
But rule 45 is clear. I hope to see Greg Sedoc run in an orange vest in the 2012 Olympics. But time is running out.
www.olympic.org/Documents/Fight_against_doping/Rules_and_regulations/Rule_45-eng-08-05-2008.pdf
aanuvulling:
Sedoc moet nog voor de tuchtcie. verschijnen en loopt tot die tijd gewoon wedstrijden.
Op 20 mei 2011 stond in de persverklaring van de Atletiekunie dit
Onlangs werd de Atletiekunie door de Dopingautoriteit geïnformeerd over het feit dat bij atleet Gregory Sedoc drie whereabouts-fouten (strikes) zijn vastgesteld binnen een periode van 18 maanden.
Het ging om een onvolledige inzending van de whereabouts op 1 oktober 2010 en een verzuim om een wijziging in de voorgeschreven locatie op de whereabouts te melden aan de Dopingautoriteit. Als gevolg hiervan liep Gregory Sedoc op 1 december 2010 en 4 februari 2011 tegen een missed-test op.
Deze omissies vallen onder de bepalingen van het Dopingreglement. De Atletiekunie hoort hiervan aangifte te doen bij de tuchtcommissie van het Instituut Sportrechtspraak (ISR). Deze aangifte heeft op 10 mei 2011 plaatsgevonden. De mondelinge behandeling hiervan is vastgesteld op 9 juni 2011.
Er is op grond van het Dopingreglement geen aanleiding om in deze situatie een ordemaatregel op te leggen. Er is immers uitsluitend sprake van een overtreding van administratieve aard en geen gebruik van een verboden middel dan wel het zich bewust onttrekken aan een dopingcontrole. De sporter is in elk geval tot de uitspraak van de tuchtcommissie gerechtigd om deel te nemen aan officiële wedstrijden.
Gregory Sedoc betreurt de gang van zaken en wil verder de uitspraak van de tuchtcommissie afwachten.
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