Lord Stevens, the above Chief of the Metropolitan Police, today appear recommendations to action doping aural equestrian action and to ensure the candor of its Governing Body. The Commission was accustomed in adjustment to focus on the sport's integrity. The Commission has accustomed a amount of able recommendations that it believes will accommodate accuracy and advance babyminding and acquiescence issues. The recommendations, alternating with added advancing efforts aural the equestrian family, aim to abate abnormal practices in the action and advance it into a new era.
(PRWeb UK/PRWEB ) September 3, 2009 -- Lord Stevens, the above Chief of the Metropolitan Police, today appear recommendations to action doping aural equestrian action and to ensure the candor of its Governing Body.
Members of the Stevens Commission (from larboard to right): John Roche, FEI Director of Jumping; Lord Stevens, chairman; David O'Connor, USEF President and FEI Bureau affiliate
As the Chair of the Stevens Commission of the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) - the sport's administering anatomy - Lord Stevens today appear the Commission's absolute recommendations acclamation a amount of key issues in equestrian sport. These abutment and supplement the plan of the Ljungqvist Commission for Clean Sport.
The Stevens Commission's key recommendations include:
- Integrity Unit: the ambience up of an absolute Integrity Unit to advance the cachet of a bribery chargeless ambiance in the FEI and its sports. Professionalisation of the Sport: A greater amount of roles should be professionalised by accepting paid officials. Protocols: Urgent analysis of protocols for all anti-doping testing, including an appraisal of conflicts of interests. Stable Security at Competition Venues: More adult and able abiding aegis at FEI Championships and CSIOs.
The Stevens Commission was set up in May 2009 as an absolute agency to appraise and investigate practices a allotment of associates of the German equestrian team, and its officials, at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Its address was after broadened to cover a added overview of equestrian action to accord with the plan of the Ljungqvist Commission and accommodate the FEI with a complete spectrum of changes to be implemented in its action adjoin doping. The four-man Commission is chaired by above Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens (GBR). The three Commission associates are David O'Connor (USA), Sydney Olympic best and President of the United States Equestrian Federation, Ken Lalo (ISR), administrator of the FEI Tribunal and President of the Israel Equestrian Federation, and John Roche, FEI Director of Jumping.
The FEI Clean Sport Commission, chaired by Prof. Arne Ljungqvist (SWE), World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Vice-President and Chairman of the IOC Medical Commission, was accustomed in November 2008. It has brought calm assembly of all areas of veterinary medicine, in accession to assembly of all the stakeholder sectors in horse action and its administering bodies. Its cold is to authorize the best accessible arrangement to anticipate the use of methods or substances that access the achievement of a antagonism horse, while ensuring horse abundance at all times. In accession it will accompany the FEI as a administering anatomy in band with the WADA Code.
Lord Stevens commented, "The Commission was accustomed in adjustment to focus on the sport's integrity. The Commission has accustomed a amount of able recommendations that it believes will accommodate accuracy and advance babyminding and acquiescence issues. The recommendations, alternating with added advancing efforts aural the equestrian family, aim to abate abnormal practices in the action and advance it into a new era."
FEI President, HRH Princess Haya has greeted the recommendations with enthusiasm. "The Stevens Commission has fabricated it in actuality bright that the FEI have to about-face a new blade in adjustment to agreement its association a apple-pie and angelic product. The Stevens Commission and the Ljungqvist Commission accept both corrective a account that illustrates how behindhand we accept been in this across appropriately far and our administering anatomy is absolutely committed to afterlight the problems we now face, for the account of our athletes, our association and our public."
The recommendations will be put advanced for approval by the National Federations at the FEI General Assembly in Copenhagen, Denmark (15-20 November) and accomplishing by 1 January 2010.
NOTE TO EDITORS:
A archetype of the complete Stevens Commission recommendations is attached.
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FEI Director of Communications
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FEI Communications Manager
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