Xinhua News Agency, Xiamen, December 16 (Wang Meng) the anti-doping work of Chinese track and field based on “zero tolerance” and “zero appearance” will extend to a wider range of mass sports at the level of system design. The purpose of this measure is to form a high-pressure situation of anti-doping work in the track and field industry, and at the same time, to improve the anti-doping awareness of the whole society, so that relevant track and field industry participants and relevant management assistants, dare not, cannot, don’t want to use stimulants.
This is the information that Xinhua Sports learned at the fourth meeting of the ninth Congress of China Track and Field Association. Yu Hongchen, vice chairman and secretary general of China Track and Field Association, mentioned in his work report of China track and field association for 2019 on behalf of the association that at the level of mass sports, including all levels of mass marathon events and non-registered youth track and field events, actively carry out anti-doping propaganda education, gradually strengthen inspection and spot checks, strive to extend the anti-doping work to a wider mass sports level, extend to the blind area of doping supervision, and strive to achieve accurate education coverage and punishment, strictly implement the zero tolerance requirement.
As early as 2017, two mass runners illegally used stimulants in marathon events and were punished by China Track and Field Association and publicized to the public. “The situation of track and field as a high-risk area, frequent area and hardest hit area of stimulants is still grim.” Yu Hongchen introduced that it is difficult to supervise the problem of stimulants of Marathon mass athletes and young athletes, and there is a lack of effective management measures; National team athletes and coaches need to further improve their understanding and professional knowledge level of anti-doping work, misreporting and missing reporting occur from time to time.
It is understood that the focus of anti-doping work of China Track and Field Association in 2020 is “to improve the top-level system design of anti-doping in track and field industry by adhering to the political requirement of” zero tolerance “and” zero appearance “. Extending coverage to mass sports is one of the design directions of improving the top system of anti-doping in track and field industry; The other two directions are national team level and registered athletes level respectively.
The picture shows Yu Hongchen, vice chairman and secretary general of China Track and Field Association, as the work report of China Track and Field Association in 2019. Xinhua Wang Meng’s photo
Yu Hongchen said that at the national team level, the system should be perfect, the responsibilities should be clear, and “full coverage, full time and no gap” should be checked “, resolutely realize the” zero appearance “of the problem of doping in major events and ensure the” zero appearance “of doping in track and field events of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games; At the level of registered athletes, the inspection and punishment will continue to be plus-sized, continue to strengthen the extended treatment, strengthen the supervision and accountability of the main responsibility, ensure the implementation of responsibility exemption and dereliction of duty, and strive to make the registration athletes under the jurisdiction of the track and field association the standard of” zero appearance.
The anti-doping work continuously strengthened by China Track and Field Association is the epitome of China’s active promotion of the construction of a long-term anti-doping governance system. In order to push forward the anti-doping work solidly and effectively, China has already put the doping into punishment. On November 18, not long ago, the Supreme People’s Court issued the Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the trial of criminal cases of smuggling, illegal operation and illegal use of stimulants. It clearly stipulates the application of the law on conviction and sentencing for crimes involving stimulants, which will come into force on January 1, 202020.
The fourth meeting of the ninth Congress of China Track and Field Association was held in Xiamen on December 15-18.