Fims in opposition to the Enhanced Video games: “Present that places the well being of athletes in danger”

The Worldwide Federation of Sports activities Medication has expressed agency criticism of the organizers of the so-called Enhanced Video games: an occasion that Fims considers dangerous for the protection and well being of the athletes.

In an article revealed right now within the British Journal of Sports activities Medication (

In actual fact, FIMS underlines that it’s firmly in opposition to Enhanced Video games which proceed to not distance themselves from using prohibited substances. The very well being of athletes is at stake and dangers being compromised each within the brief and long run.

Within the article, FIMS says sure to deliberate medical screening to verify athletes’ eligibility to compete on the Enhanced Video games, however warns that no present medical screening can really assure athlete security or mitigate potential well being dangers from banned substances .

“The precedence of the FIMS – declared the president of the Federation, Professor Fabio Pigozzi – is to safeguard with out exception the three key rules that underlie the medical help of athletes: scientific evaluation, research of the person’s bodily situation and safety of well being. These rules are inconsistent with the present Enhanced Video games philosophy. Moreover, our concern is that younger persons are being exploited within the pursuit of fame and fortune. And so they find yourself being fascinated by wealthy new manifestations.”

Regardless of opposition from many within the international sports activities motion, it’s seemingly that the Enhanced Video games will go ahead not directly given their monetary help. Maybe unintentionally contributing to the battle in opposition to cheaters by utilizing prohibited substances to excel in sport. If it have been in truth doable to hold out anti-doping controls for analysis functions, this new sort of Video games might be utilized by the anti-doping consultants themselves, with the suitable knowledgeable consent of the contributors, to higher perceive the life cycle of various substances and/or strategies and their results on well being and elite efficiency. Anti-doping organizations geared up with this info might then develop smarter and extra direct methods to detect drug use in sport and higher inform athletes in regards to the potential dangerous well being results of utilizing prohibited substances. This stays a strictly scientific analysis which can’t in any manner override the moral rules of sports activities drugs and on which Fims has primarily based its historical past.

“Our precedence – specified the chairman of the FIMS scientific fee, Professor Yannis Pitsiladis – is to guard the well being of athletes and promote truthful and inclusive sport. We’re on the forefront of improvements in sport and due to this fact don’t oppose advances in sports activities organisation, expertise and drugs. However provided that the well being of the athletes is protected, each type of dishonest is rigorously repressed and the moral rules which can be the idea of the Olympic Motion and world sport are revered.”