WDSF Anti-Doping Commission

Dear Dancers and Trainers, this is an important message of the WADA. The new substances added to the Prohibited list:
As the end of the year is fast approaching, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) wishes to remind you that the 2019 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (List) comes into force on 1 January 2019.

As Signatories of the World Anti-Doping Code (Code), Anti-Doping Organizations are expected to take appropriate steps to distribute the 2019 List to their members and constituents and to ensure that athletes and entourage have been adequately informed of any changes to the List that may affect them.

As such, we wish to draw your attention to the Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes that was sent to you as part of our media release of 28 September. Several examples were added to existing classes this year, in particular:
Example of endogenous anabolic androgenic steroids: epiandrosterone (3β-hydroxy-5α-androstan-17-one), available in some nutritional supplements.

Examples of Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) activating agents: daprodustat (GSK1278863) and vadadustat (AKB-6548).

Example of beta-2-agonist: tretoquinol (trimetoquinol), an ingredient commonly found in oral cold and flu medications, particularly in some countries in Asia.

Examples of aromatase inhibitors: 2-androstenol (5α-androst-2-en-17-ol), 3-androstenol (5α-androst-3-en-17-ol) and 3-androstenone (5α-androst-3-en-17-one).

Examples of S4.4: myostatin-neutralizing antibodies (e.g. domagrozumab, landogrozumab, stamulumab), myostatin-binding proteins (e.g. follistatin, myostatin propeptide), agents reducing or ablating myostatin expression, activin receptor IIB competitors such as e.g. decoy activin receptors (e.g. ACE-031), anti-activin receptor IIB antibodies (e.g. bimagrumab), and activin A-neutralizing antibodies.

Additional analogues of methylhexaneamine: 5-methylhexan-2-amine (1,4-dimethylpentylamine) and 3-methylhexan-2-amine (1,2-dimethylpentylamine).
Should you have any questions or concerns regarding the above-mentioned modifications, please get in touch with your usual WADA contact.

We thank you for your cooperation and ongoing commitment to Clean Sport.

Best regards,

World Anti-Doping Agency

Dear Dancers,

You know doping has health consequences, for more information see the following poster:

Today at the WRRC to give a presentation on anti-doping. I thank the organisers to give a talk about this for all sports important topic.

www.wada-ama.org

Dear Dancers, trainers and coaches,

There is a modicification of the 2018 WADA prohibited list!

https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/prohibited_list_2018_summary_of_modifications_en.pdf

Keep our sport clean to have a fair play.

Ineke

www.wada-ama.org

Dear DanceSport Friends,

Happy New Year, a year of clean sport and fair play.

WDSF Anti-Doping Commission
Ineke Crijns

Dear All,

Be aware of the updated prohibited list for 2018.
See: https://www.ukad.org.uk/news/article/wada-updates-the-prohibited-list-for-2018/

Latest news from UK Anti-Doping

All categories present here in Malle, Belgium. WC Paralympic DanceSport

Dear fellow dancers,

Also others dance forms are very interesting and can have anti-doping controls.

Enjoying the World Championships Paralympic DanceSport.

Ineke Crijns

WADA TUE Congres today and tomorrow in Helsinki 😄

Dear Dancers and Trainers,

I just read interesting information on the USADA website, which is also of interest for you.

5 Myths on dietary supplements:
Here’s What Athletes Really Need to Know
Among athletes and consumers alike, there is often a misconception that dietary supplements are safe because they go through a robust vetting process like medicines and medical devices. Unfortunately, that couldn’t be farther from the truth, as supplements are regulated in a post-market manner, meaning that no regulatory body evaluates the contents or safety of supplements before they hit the shelves at major retailers like grocery stores and GNCs.

Because of these misconceptions and the nature of the supplement industry, a number of myths about supplements have arisen, which is especially problematic for athletes. Here are just a few of the most common supplement myths and truths that athletes need to know:

https://www.usada.org/supplement-myths-what-athletes-need-know

5 Supplement Myths: What Athletes Need to Know | USADA A few of the most common supplement myths and truths that athletes need to know.

Dear Dancers and Trainers,

Be aware of the new Prohibited list for 2017! https://www.wada-ama.org/en/media/news/2016-09/wada-publishes-2017-prohibited-list

If you need medication, please contact the NADO or me before you take the drug, to know whether the drug is prohibited in competition.

Fair play,
Ineke Crijns

WADA publishes 2017 Prohibited List (September 29, 2016) Today, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) publishes the 2017 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods; along with, the 2017 Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes. The List - which designates what substances and methods are prohibited both in- and out-of-competition, and which substa...

Dear Dancers and Trainers,
Although, I am pleased to see many positive reactions on this page, I am less pleased with the TUE requests. Therefore some do and don'ts of TUE requests.
- Have it completely filled out in English. Be aware that the doctors who assess the TUE are from over the whole world: Austria, Canada, Germany, Thailand and the Netherlands.
- Please ask the doctor to add information on the medical examination, so the diagnosis can be checked
- Do not sent me TUE requests of hobby dancers, only of the International testing pool. Otherwise sent the request to the National Anti-Doping Organisation (NADO).

Good luck with the competitions.
Ineke Crijns

Dear DanceSport friends,

Happy New Year.

I hope that 2017 will be a doping free year, while enjoying dancesport.
Ineke

For information

Due to the consistent drug use scandals which have been coming up every year in the Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has begun making suggestions to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
According to theconversation.com the IOC has been accused of not paying enough attention to detecting drugs in sports. The testing periods are known by the athletes of each sport and there are often gaps as long as five months in which athletes are competing but not being tested.
In 2012, the United Kingdom’s branch of The Daily Mail published an article, “Games drugs slur: Chambers’ doping guru claims 60 per cent of athletes are cheating” by Neil Wilson in which renowned sporting drug dealer Victor Conte proclaimed that six out of 10 athletes competing in the 2012 Olympic Games were taking “banned substances.”
With a past littered with cases of substance abuse it is about time the committee officially begins addressing it as a problem in need of a solution. This year’s Rio Olympics had the Russian athlete scandal in which over 100 Russian athletes were banned from competing in the games due to a state-run doping program that administered a mixture of anabolic steroids, according to The Guardian.
The IOC is specifically suggesting that the anti-doping system be separated from specific sport organizations around the world in order for more authority to be given to WADA and CAS over national anti-doping agencies to construct a centralized worldwide system, according to the CNN article, “IOC seeks to reform anti-doping with ‘more robust’ WADA” by Rob Hodgetts.
The IOC promised to increase its funding to the war on drugs in sports and for WADA to conduct more targeted testing and for all associates of the athlete such as coaches, therapists, et cetera to face criminal charges when the athlete tests positive for drugs.
“If the reforms are implemented 100 percent this would mean a substantial commitment and a substantial increase in WADA’s tasks and responsibilities, and that would mean a substantial increase in its budget,” IOC president Thomas Bach said according to the CNN article.

Dear dancers,
Please be aware of drugs on the prohibited list of the WADA and the WDSF Anti-doping Commission. These drugs can cause health issues but by a positive test you get suspensies for a maximum of two years if it is the first time.
Play fair.
In case you have questions on drugs, please contact your NADO or the WDSF Anti-Doping Commission.

Dear Carlos,
We are sorry to hear of your resignation, but we whish you good health and many more years to enjoy your family and friends and off course dancesport.
We thank you for the support for the Anti-Doping Commission and the good cause of of fair play in Dancesport.
All the best,
Ineke Crijns
WDSF Anti-Doping Commission

Dear friends of dancesport,

Herewith, the Anti-Doping Commission of the WDSF, wants to inform you that the WDSF Anti-Doping Code is published. This Code is valid. It has been adopted by the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA) and the Members of the WDSF.

Please be informed that via this page, the WDSF Anti-Doping Commission will inform you on topics related to Anti-Doping on a regular basis.

Kind regards,
On behaf of the WDSF Anti-Doping Commission
Dr. Ineke Crijns, MD