Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport

(Ottawa, Ontario – February 11, 2010) – The Vancouver Olympic Winter Games begin tomorrow, and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) would like to congratulate the sports that have achieved a very high completion rate for anti-doping education.

Team Canada athletes in the sports of curling, nordic combined, ski jumping, skeleton, and luge have all successfully completed the 15-minute course. Women’s hockey, biathlon, bobsleigh, figure skating, snowboarding, and speed skating (long track) are close behind with over 90% of their athletes through. Overall, almost 80% of the 2010 Canadian Olympic team have completed the True Sport Clean Advantage online learning program.

Canadians can be confident that these athletes understand and are able to comply with their anti-doping rights and responsibilities under the International Olympic Committee (IOC) rules. With the IOC’s increasingly rigorous program and the Vancouver organizing committee’s stated goal of a doping-free Games, the CCES considers education to be an essential part of an athlete’s Olympic preparations.

Go to www.cces.ca/vancouver2010 to access the True Sport Clean Advantage course.

Good luck at the Olympics, Team Canada athletes!

The CCES is an independent, national, non-profit organization. Our mission, to foster ethical sport for all Canadians, is carried out through research, promotion, education, detection and deterrence, as well as through programs and partnerships with other organizations.

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