Ethical sport bolstered by prevention and education (Q1 Stats)

(Ottawa, Ontario – September 1, 2009) – The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) released its activity report, including its doping control statistics, for the period April to June 2009, the first quarter of its fiscal year. The CCES fosters ethical sport for all Canadians by recognizing and encouraging good sport at the community level, and by detecting and deterring doping.

Education is a cornerstone of the CCES approach to ethical sport. This quarter we worked with a wide range of partners including athletes, doctors, and municipal leaders. During the first week of June, the CCES provided speakers Beckie Scott and Jared Read to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ 2009 conference. The two spoke to the gathering of municipal employees and officials about the important role that good sport – “True Sport” – has had in their own lives, and how it can benefit communities and the lives of their citizens.

The Canadian Association of Sport Medicine’s annual conference provided an opportunity for the CCES and Active Healthy Kids Canada to collaborate with physicians to identify ways to help get children and youth more active and healthy. CCES staff also ran a seminar to inform attendees about the risks of supplement use, and hosted an outreach booth to offer resources on the therapeutic use exemption process.

The CCES continued its online education courses during the period, offering True Sport Clean 101 to junior football players, to university and college athletes preparing for the new season, and to developing athletes heading to the Canada Games in August. Now in its third year, the e-learning program received a Best Association Training Technology Award at the 2009 IMS Learning Impact Awards in Barcelona.

The CCES administers the Canadian Anti-Doping Program on behalf of Canadian sport. As part of this responsibility, the CCES provides doping control services for Canadian athletes and sample collection for international organizations under contract. During the quarter April-June 2009, 645 tests were conducted. Of these, 495 were under the domestic program,

which resulted in two anti-doping rule violations. In support of the testing program, which complies with the World Anti-Doping Code, the CCES assisted 134 athletes to apply for therapeutic use exemptions, and managed the whereabouts submission of 517 athletes in its registered testing pool. A breakdown of the testing conducted by sport and by client is referenced below.

The Canadian Anti-Doping Violation-Sanction Registry (formerly the CADP Violation Registry) is the list of Canadian athletes ineligible to participate in sport. This resource is now available as a snapshot of the sanctions in place at the end of each quarter, as well as in a “most current” version which is updated in real-time.

The CCES is an independent, national, non-profit organization. Our mission, to foster ethical sport for all Canadians, is carried out through research, promotion, education, detection and deterrence, as well as through programs and partnerships with other organizations.

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Further Reading:

• CCES Quarterly Statistics, April to June 2009
  www.cces.ca/pdfs/CCES-MR-2009AprJunDetails-E.pdf
• Canadian Anti-Doping Violation-Sanction Registry
  www.cces.ca/results