1) Establishing a pilot of a passport biological within the Union Cycliste International (UCI), recorded politically October 23, 2007, represents a further important step in the anti-doping development and l application of indirect methods.


However, as methodologies direct (doping control), the effectiveness of indirect methods is still strongly influenced by the mode of application related technical including achieving the analyses so perfectly unannounced over periods targeted. Thus, the independence of roles between actors to promote a sport, an athlete or a group of athletes, and actors in charge of the fight against doping, remains more than ever a key concept in the fight against doping.


The Athletes program For Transparency (AFT) supported and financed since 2006 by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) (see link below), Rhone-Alpes Region and the General Council of Drôme allowed to study the technical feasibility passport of the athlete at the level of sampling procedures (standardization of the collection protocols and laboratory tests), and developments needed to implement a centralized online platform for the results.

 
                                                      http://www.wada-ama.org/en/dynamic.ch2?pageCategory.id=344

    "Study of the technical feasibility of registering biological parameters in an individual database to indirectly detect doping"

 
Moreover, beyond these technical aspects, the AFT has also worked in parallel to offer the athletes on a voluntary basis on-line controlled the results of analyses and authorizations Use therapeutics.


As all research programs supported by WADA, the AFT has been contracted for a defined period, in this case three years between 2006 and 2008 included, with a decision of annual renewal.


The recent implementation of an experimental biological passport by the UCI leads WADA legitimately wonder about the need to continue the program AFT in 2008. The decision of WADA will be taken to reading the annual report of activity 2007, and depending on developments in 2008 originally envisaged in the specifications, including the internationalization of the AFT program.


Once the decision of WADA known, the Board of Directors of the Association AFT study in turn with its other partners, whether or not the AFT program on the basis of an internationalization lead to availability of the platform athletes volunteers of all nationalities, while allowing the organization analyses in other countries.


2) WADA has published online a series of questions and answers "about the passport of the athlete, in order to provide more information on monitoring longitudinal data biological athletes in the fight against the doping. This information accessible from the link below will be used in particular to understand the interrelationship between the various research programmes necessary for the development of the passport of the athlete and clarify the role of the AFT program.

                                                        http://www.wada-ama.org/fr/newsarticle.ch2?articleId=3115560

3) You find from the links below (click direct or copy and paste into your Internet browser) all the videos made during the symposium "The fight against doping: scientific issues and international perspectives" of June 27, 2007.

Video 01: http://www.webcastors.net/videos/athlete/colloque/athlet01.zip

Video 02: http://www.webcastors.net/videos/athlete/colloque/athlet02.zip

Video 03: http://www.webcastors.net/videos/athlete/colloque/athlet03.zip

Video 04: http://www.webcastors.net/videos/athlete/colloque/athlet04.zip

Video 05: http://www.webcastors.net/videos/athlete/colloque/athlet05.zip

These videos numbered from 1 to 5 resume chronologically different interventions (programme attached as well).