Tokyo: Close to 5,000 samples in and out of competition for drug testing will be collected during the Tokyo Olympics, the international test body has told IOC, stating that he has implemented the most extensive pre-game anti-doping program ever.
Ita made this statement during the 138th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) here on Tuesday.
Open game on July 23.
IOC heard the latest updates on the anti-doping program from the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) and Ita, plus reports from the Arbitrase International Board for Sport (ICAS).
For Tokyo games, both testing and components of anti-doping system sanctions will be independent of IOC.
Ita and the Arbitration court for the anti-doping division of sports (CAS ADD) will handle this respectively.
Overcoming the session, Chairman of the Ita Foundation Board, Dr.
Valerie Fourneyron, provides the final review of the pre-game testing program for Tokyo 2020.
“After a delay of the game, the pre-game expert group was calibrated again efforts by 2020 and reviewed all 33 participating sports and Their athletes tend to compete in the game, “said a statement on the IOC website.
“In December 2020, more than six months before the match, this group issued more than 25,000 testing recommendations – making this the most extensive pre-match anti-doping program ever implemented for the Olympic edition,” he added.
During the game, ita said the plan to collect around 5,000 urine and blood samples in the competition in collaboration with the Tokyo 2020 and the Japanese anti-doping agency (JAda) will request support from the anti-doping workforce of 250 doping control officers and 700 chaperones.
“With Covid-19 countermeasures in place, ita is ready to adjust testing outside the competition during the time of the game for the fact that athletes live in the Olympic village and in Japan will be shortened,” said the statement.
“Ita is preparing to increase the number of out-of-competition tests spread out outside the village, and as an alternative, some tests will be carried out in Asletes countries before they go for the match.” The first phase of the Tokyo Olympic anti-doping program has been completed, with an implementation rate of 80 percent for qualified athletes who are recommended for testing by the group of pre-game experts.
Ita is responsible for the management of the results of each disadvantaged analytic findings or other anti-dop rules violations and will process each resulting case before cas to add.
The test sample will also be saved for 10 years after the Olympics.
After the IOC Executive Board decision in December 2019, Ita has launched a long-term storage program and global re-analysis, including the establishment of a very safe long-term storage facility (CLTSF).
Under this program, all anti-doping organizations can store all samples they collect on athletes who will go to Tokyo, for 10 years free, during the pre-game period, and can request a re-analysis at any time.
CLTSF has been fully operational since December 2020.
More than 40 anti-doping organizations have registered with this program.
President Wada, Witold Banka told the session on how the organization, along with the whole world of anti-doping, continued to work towards a full return with full capacity.
“Although there are limitations that still exist throughout the world, testing outside the competition is now at a higher level than in the same period in 2019, while the testing rate in the competition for May 2021 is also the highest in the last 15 months.”