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Getty Images The Medical Commission was created in 1967 in order to deal with the increasing problem of doping in the sports world. The initial goal of putting in place an anti-doping structure was rapidly widened to encompass the following three fundamental principals:

• - Protection of the health of athletes.
• - Respect for both medical and sport ethics.
• - Equality for all competing athletes.

For more than 40 years, the IOC Medical Commission has worked in the anti-doping field, studying alternative methods to help athletes. These alternatives consist of sport medicine, biomechanics, physiology applied to sports, nutrition and all the other sciences linked to sports.

Since the creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency, the scope of the IOC Medical Commission has expanded.

In addition to the ongoing fight against doping which remains one of its main tasks both as representative of the IOC in WADA committees and during the Olympic Games, the IOC Medical Commission mission is to be the body which will address all of the main medical issues which may occur in sports.

The IOC Medical Commission will facilitate consensus meetings on all of the above-mentioned issues whilst giving priority to the protection of the health of anyone practising sport at any level.

Protect, Respect, and Equality

Discover the basic rules regarding best medical practices in the domain of sport and the safeguarding of the rights and health of the athletes.

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