WADA Education and Awareness Campaign
The campaign SAY NO! TO DOPING is intended to provide sports and anti-doping communities with a tool to draw attention to the commitment of athletes to compete free from doping by incorporating green sporting equipment into sport venues. The color green, which represents the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), evokes health, nature and, for some sports, the field of play.
“Having a common, easily recognisable message and symbol of clean sport is a good way to unite athletes worldwide in the fight against doping in sport,” said WADA President John Fahey. "The campaign will provide sports with a platform for building a global community of athletes that show pride in playing clean."
The International DanceSport Federation is now challenged to find a creative way of implementing the campaign based on WADA instructions.
- Selecting a piece of equipment that is integral to your sport that will be produced in green.
- Ensuring that the equipment includes “SAY NO! TO DOPING”, your logo and “in partnership with WADA” logo.
- Developing a brochure or video explaining the significance of the green equipment and outlining reasons for athletes to say no to doping.
- Finding opportunities, such as training camps or major competitions, to introduce athletes to the equipment.
- Including the equipment during warm-up or incorporating it into events that have public and media attention.
- Challenging athletes or teams to find other opportunities to use the equipment.
- Creating a network, through your Web site or using social networking sites, where athletes and others can show their commitment to doping-free sport by adding pictures and videos or athletes playing “green".
Any ideas? Let us know (here)! In the meantime we refer you to the Anti-Doping section (here) of this website for all information concerning the athletes' responsibilities in making sure that DanceSport is "clean"!
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