Sports authority plans drive in Coimbatore to curb use of performance-enhancing drugs
The Hindu
The Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu (SDAT), Coimbatore, will carry out various activities to curb the use of performance-enhancing drugs among athletes, according to District Sports Officer
The Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu (SDAT), Coimbatore, will carry out various activities to curb the use of performance-enhancing drugs among athletes, according to District Sports Officer R.P. Ravichandran.
The authority will place boards with anti-doping messages in Nehru Stadium, and ask organisers of athletic events to brief the participants on the ill-effects of drugs, he said, in response to reports on used syringes and vials of suspected performance-enhancing drug found in the rest rooms of the stadium on Saturday.
According to him, the Coimbatore district athletics championship was held in the stadium recently. The 61st State police inter-zonal athletics meet concluded on December 17 and the Coimbatore Bar Association’s athletics meet was held on December 18. He said that the organisers of the police meet had informed all managers and participants regarding the ban on and ill-effects of doping. Private clubs are also conducting regular training in the stadium.
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