“The Institute of National Anti Doping Organisations (iNADO) is an umbrella organization uniting NADOs and RADOs around the world to speak with one voice and to share best practice. Our vision is to develop effective tools and platforms for our members and the wider anti-doping community to share expertise, best practices, and to promote the diversity of opinions and good governance in anti-doping.
Our “Live Chat” podcast is the opportunity for us to take a pause and reflect about anti-doping, what it entails, how it has progressed over the years and how we, as a community can collaborate to reach a world in which athletes, at all levels, participate in clean sport.
In this series of Podcasts, we will call to the MIC different experts from anti-doping organizations, sport governing bodies, the academic community and athletes.
We hope you enjoy listening!”
In this episode our guest is Catherine Ordway, PhD. Catherine has an extensive background in anti-doping which has taken her around the world.
She is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Canberra and in April published her book Restoring Trust in Sport: Corruption Cases and Solutions.
In this episode, Ruta Banyte, Director of the Anti-Doping Agency of Lithuania, one of the smaller NADOs in our community, discusses some the agency's achievements and the challenges it faces. Ruta highlights the importance of building relationships with other organizations in Lithuania and other NADOs in achieving clean sport.
In Episode 11 Tracey Lambrechs chats about her role as an Educator for Drug Free Sport New Zealand. Tracey is a former weightlifter, who competed at the 2016 Olympic Games and now gives back to sport by sharing her knowledge and experience with athletes in New Zealand to promote fair and clean sport. Tracey discusses her approach to education and how her background in elite sport supports her in her role by being able to give real-world examples to prevent athletes from making mistakes and reminding them that they are a person first and athlete second.
In Episode 10 we discuss with Matthias Kamber his contributions to the anti-doping movement. He also introduces his book published in 2020: “The poisoned sport – victories and defeats in the fight against doping”. Specifically, Matthias talks about the case of Simon Getzmann, an athlete who is believed to be the first to return a positive doping test from a contaminated legally registered medication. Matthias highlights the importance of listening to the athlete and investigating the meaning of a positive sample. The episode ends with Matthias offering his propositions for the future of anti-doping.
Elena García from the Communications Department at the Spanish NADO, Agencia Espanola de Protección de la Salud el Deporte (AEPSAD), discusses the development of anti-doping and her belief that science and education are key to the future.
Elena describes her personal journey from her first exposure to doping as a minor and her evolution to combining high-level sport with her anti-doping research while working in a NADO.
You can check Elena's webpage and her last research papers, as well as the AEPSAD's website here: https://elenagarciagrimau.com/; https://aepsad.culturaydeporte.gob.es/
In this episode, Daniel Read PhD discusses his latest research: Balancing mission creep, means, effectiveness and legitimacy at the World Anti-Doping Agency. Dan and his co-authors applied the theory of mission creep to the anti-doping system and offers NADO-specific solutions to identified challenges.
Dan can be contacted for the full version of his paper, or if you would like to discuss any elements of his research, at D.Read3@lboro.ac.uk
In this episode, Petra Haven, Executive Director of the Bahamas Anti-Doping Commission (BADC) discusses the importance of relationships within the anti-doping community and how this has supported the evolution of anti-doping the Bahamas. Petra highlights the value of community, particularly with regard to education and communication with athletes. She also discusses the future of the BADC and how, like many others, the global pandemic has required them to adapt and also provided with opportunities.
In this episode, Jens Sejer Andersen, founder of Play the Game, the platform to promote ethics in sports, shares his perspective on the evolution of integrity in Sports Movement: the systemic challenges to monitor, investigate and sanction misbehaviours (corruption, doping scandals, match-fixing, etc.), the call for WADA to engage in an open critical dialogue, and the need for external pressure to eliminate organized crime and unethical networks.
