Anti-Doping News
Robert Jasiek
aspects of anti-doping rules to be valid in practice have been
clarified by Martin Stiassny with reference to Mr. Kato, who is one of
the responsible persons for anti-doping matters in the IGF, as
follows:
Players in the Registered Test Pool have to tell every 3 months to the
IGF a contact address of theirs. Only a contact address. No(!)
statements at all about whereabouts per day or hour have to be made.
So (apart from some data security management questions) finally it
appears that the IGF anti-doping politics abides by human, basic,
European and (e.g., in case of Germany) German rights. This is great
news for us Go players! We won't lose our privacy and dignity, while
the same cannot be said for sure in many physical sports (and even
Chess) where anti-doping officers and media can spoil even an
athlete's holiday.
Everybody has to remind though the verbal rules statements and the
IGF-WADA gentlemen's agreement because the overridden 70 pages IGF
Anti-Doping Regulations seem to tell an entirely different story.
hans kloss
Has this ever happened in Go?
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Robert Jasiek
wrote:
>just out of curiosity: how does this go I mean doping in mind sports?
Go
IGF: We want to promote Go and need PR and money for that. How? By
becoming recognized by IOC as far as possible.
WADA: Thus you have to accept our anti-doping rules.
EGF: Now, don't say you had not known when voting for making Go an
olympic sport. Of course everybody knows that that also means
anti-doping.
Players: Eh, what happened? Doping controls? We don't want that! But
we like the money! So let's pretend it was all about ethics. Anyway, I
am too weak a player to risk having to sacrificice any urin sample.
Chess
Pretty much like physical sports but not as excessive.
>Has this ever happened in Go?
Nie Weiping is said to have taken oxygen when it was still allowed.
Otherwise little men in the ears or the spy movies' glasses with
integrated twitter view would be more effective than drugs, IMO. Some
claim that nikotin is effective. I'd say the very legal vitamins and
better sleep are...
Hans-Georg Michna
>Nie Weiping is said to have taken oxygen when it was still allowed.
>Otherwise little men in the ears or the spy movies' glasses with
>integrated twitter view would be more effective than drugs, IMO. Some
>claim that nikotin is effective. I'd say the very legal vitamins and
>better sleep are...
Ritalin (Methylphenidate, MPH) comes to mind. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylphenidate for details.
Hans-Georg