WBC JOINS FORCES WITH VADA IN HISTORIC CLEAN BOXING PROGRAM
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 24 Aug 2015
The World Boxing Council has joined forces with VADA, the Voluntary Anti Doping Agency, to initiate what President Mauricio Sulaiman has labeled as the WBC CLEAN BOXING PROGRAM.
The program was first proposed by the late WBC president Don Jose Sulaiman and his son and current president Mauricio Sulaiman has initiated the program which he says ?will be another WBC dream come true.?
The WBC said that ?Along with the invaluable support and tireless efforts of VADA and President Dr. Margaret Goodman, the PROGRAM will start with the premier world boxing organization?s participation in the testing/funding for the upcoming title clash for the vacant Super Lightweight World Championship between Viktor Postol of the Ukraine and Lucas Matthysse of Argentina scheduled on October 3.
The WBC website conceded that the WBC-VADA program ?is quite ambitious, and its main goal aside from testing is to educate the athletes on the danger and disadvantages that doping can bring to their present and future wellbeing, along with the penalties in testing positive for prohibited substances, in or out of competition.?
The WBC-VADA initiative tutorials as well as complete policies and procedures will be available to all through the WBC website.
The WBC said ?It is its firm position to become a bastion of a drug free boxing profession.?
It indicated that the program ?has been planned, designed and developed with countless hours of hard work and dedication of many passionate members of the WBC and VADA.?
It is basically divided in 3 primary objectives:
Awareness program to educate and prevent boxers about the dangers of substances and the tragic effects that they can lead to. This is done by tutorials, webinars, forums, materials, etc.
- Out of competition Random testing
- Voluntary enrollment by fighters.
Sulaiman said the WBC and VADA will be ?continuously reporting progress of this historic venture and we are certain that the boxing community at large will endorse and participate to achieve the main goal which is to protect our athletes and our sport.?
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