Anti-Doping
To promote and protect the integrity of sport and the health of athletes, the IPC, together with International Federations and the National Paralympic Committees established the IPC Anti-Doping Code.
The aims of the code, which is fully compliant with the World Anti-Doping Agency Code, are:
To protect the athlete’s right to participate in doping free sport and thus promote health, fairness and equality for athletes worldwide.
To ensure harmonized, co-orindated and effective anti-doping programmes on the international and national level with regards to detection, deterrence and prevention of doping.
Anti-Doping rules, like Competition rules, are sport rules governing the conditions under which sport is played. All participants (athletes and athlete support personnel) accept these rules as a condition of participation and are presumed to have agreed to comply with the IPC Anti-Doping Code.
The IPC fully supports the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) view that the long-term solution to preventing doping is through effective values-based education programmes that can foster anti-doping behaviors and create a strong anti-doping culture.
In addition to the video above, WADA has produced a number of educational resources for athletes and coaches which can be found below:
WADA Quiz - Test your knowledge of anti-doping
WADA Doping Control Leaflet (English)
WADA Dangers of Doping Leaflet (English)
WADA Dangers of Doping Leaflet (Other languages)
Bob Balk - Chairperson IPC Athletes' Council
"I feel very strongly that doping places an athlete's health and safety at significant risk. There are so many financial and other incentives in sport today that push athletes to making the wrong decision regarding doping.
"WADA places significant consequence on athletes who are doping thereby creating tremendous incentive for athletes to play clean and take care of their health. I do agree that ultimately the individual athlete is responsible for what is in their body, however WADA, the IPC/IOC, NPC/NOC's, IF's and coaches have responsibility to help an athlete make the right decision and compete on a safe and level field of play. I respect that the majority of athletes are trying their hardest to play by the rules."
