England Lacrosse is delighted to announce our anti-doping strategy, developed with UK Anti-Doping, as part of our commitment to promoting and supporting clean doping-free sport across the lacrosse community.
EL understand the contribution that sport can make to health, unity and social cohesion and, as respect and integrity are core values to the sport of lacrosse, EL is committed to ensuring lacrosse is played in an environment that supports fair play and is a doping-free sport, supported by a simple and thorough education and information strategy.
EL is working in accordance with UK Anti-Doping rules, World Lacrosse Anti-Doping rules, and the WADA code, and is committed to providing players the right to play in a doping-free sport, developing alongside implementing, an education strategy to support this.
The EL anti-doping philosophy is to create an anti-doping education strategy, through a three-year implementation plan, which supports and provides anti-doping education to its players and the wider workforce in the sport ensuring that those involved at all levels of the sport are provided with relevant and current anti-doping information enabling them to make informed choices.
This direction will help to create and maintain an environment where athletes, support staff, other participants and the public at large have confidence that lacrosse is a doping-free sport and where success will not be questioned.
As part of the anti-doping strategy, EL will:
• Provide information to the wider game about doping in sport
• Integrate anti-doping policies into the wider education and skills programme
• Educate athletes & coaches within the England Lacrosse Talent programmes as to their responsibilities to a clean sport
• Educate and support performance athletes, coaches & support staff as to policies and their responsibilities within the EL Clean Sport Strategy
England Lacrosse Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mark Coups, said:
“The progressive partnership, developed over recent months, with UK Anti-Doping to ensure that our sport is safe and clean has been a great step for lacrosse to make. We are committed to having a level playing field when we compete either domestically or internationally.
“The new Anti Doping assurance code has helped us set out how we can do more to ensure that our sport is clean and, using UKAD's expertise, will do even more in the future to highlight the "Clean Sport" message and education programme.”
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