SPORT 1913 - 2013

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sport requires better opportunities for physi- cal exercise for all citizens worldwide. In this sense the cooperation agreement came to life. Several member unions of the CSIT are members of the ISCA at the same time. Deeper cooperation is especially requested during the 3 rd CSIT World Sports Games along with the European Fair-Play Movement, too. On the occasion of the SPORTVISION Conference 2012 hosted within the framework of the Danish Presidency of the European Union, the ISCA announced the launching of the “European Week of Sport and Physical Ac- tivity” called the MOVE WEEK. ISCA Europe, led by Filippo Fossati, President of the UISP, one of the three Workers and Amateurs in Sports Associations in Italy, launched this project together with its member unions and cooperation partners under the motto “100 million more Europeans active in sport and physical activity by 2020” (ISCA 2011). All the European member unions of the CSIT have been invited to cooperate in this ambitious program and will surely be part of the success- ful promotion of this important matter. Negotiations with the WADA The World Anti-Doping Agency’s mission is to lead a collaborative worldwide campaign for doping-free sport. WADA was established in 1999 as an independent international agency composed and funded equally by the sport movement and governments of the world. Its key activities include scientific research, edu- cation, development of anti-doping capaci-

ties, and monitoring of the World Anti-Dop- ing Code – the document harmonising anti-doping policies in all sports and all coun- tries. WADA works towards a vision of a world where all athletes compete in a doping-free sporting environment (WADA 2011). During the SportAccord Convention held in Dubai, United Arabic Emirates, in April 2010 the CSIT leadership was confronted with the situation that the “Doping free Sports Unit” of SportAc- cord forced the CSIT to become WADA-Code compliant. The international alliance in a fight for clean sport worldwide has also reached the pure workers and amateurs sport organisation CSIT. Upon the signing of the contract by the CSIT President and Secretary- General, all the consequences had not been carefully considered (WADA – CSIT 2010). It became apparent that the treatment of the CSIT would not be very much different than any other sport organisation or federation, in- dependent of its status and its target groups; professional athletes or pure amateurs. The step to becoming code compliant was un- avoidable, if the recognition of the IOC and the membership of the SportAccord were to be secured. The first idea of course was, more or less, to inform and to educate, but never to test workers and amateurs in the CSIT sport activities. The signature was the formal accep- tance and agreement to implement the appli- cable provisions of the code in the policies, statutes, rules and regulations of CSIT. In several meetings CSIT President Bauer pointed out that a high percentage of com-

petitors of the CSIT championships and the CSIT World Sports Games were industrial workers; workers that are used to dropping in at the next pharmacy when they become sick or simply have a flu. This conflict of interests had to be overcome. The WADA representa- tives insisted on testing a certain percentage of participants in the CSIT medal events, the CSIT insisted on respecting the fact that non- professional or recreational sport enthusiasts do not necessarily have the same access to in- formation and sport related knowledge as semi-professional or professional athletes with strong sport federations in the back- ground. How to treat athletes that did not even have a chance to learn to read or to write so as not to throw the baby out with the bath- water? From one negotiation to the next the awareness of our unique situation grew and grew within the WADA. There was another as- pect that had to be considered, the current fi- nancial situation of the CSIT and the financial consequences of testing a large number of athletes. The WADA representatives first in- sisted on testing 5-8 per cent of all partici- pants; this would have meant testing 250-400 athletes in the CSITWorld Sports Games based on a participation figure of 5000. The costs for a single test would range between 600 and 800 Euros. This incredible sum could not be cov- ered by the Workers and Amateurs in Sports movement. The negotiations led to a balanc- ing act; the WADA was insisting on the above- mentioned figures. CSIT President Bauer fi-

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