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FIFA’s future activities in the fight against doping

J Dvorak¹, P McCrory², M D’Hooghe³

¹ FIFA Medical Assessment and Research Centre, and Department of Neurology, Schulthess Clinic, Zurich, Switzerland
² Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, University of Melbourne, Australia
³ FIFA Sports Medical Committee, FIFA Executive Committee, Bruges, Belgium

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Correspondence to:
Professor J Dvorak
Chairman, FIFA Medical Assessment and Research Centre, Department of Neurology, Schulthess Clinic, Lengghalde 2, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland; jiri.dvorak@kws.ch

Keywords: doping; anti-doping; FIFA; challenges

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The fight against doping in sport receives considerable media interest and results in much speculation regarding the ability of athletes to compete on a level playing field. Football was one of the sports that took early leadership in this fight when the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) introduced doping controls in football in 1970 as part of a wider strategy to ensure that the results of representative matches were a fair reflection of the ability of those taking part.

As a result of the collaborative effort between FIFA and regional confederations and their member associations in conjunction with national anti-doping organisations, more than 20 000 doping controls are performed annually on football players. The overall incidence of positive doping samples for prohibited substances accounts for 0.4% of all tests. Most of the positive drug tests are due to cannabis and cocaine, the so-called social drugs. Only a few individual . . . [Full text of this article]

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