Madrid, January 16 (EFE).- The Spanish Society of Sports Medicine (SEMED) has defended and requested the need to maintain “close cooperation” with the Spanish Anti-Doping Commission (CELAD), in light of possible changes in this direction. Its director has “an important sensitivity to sports medicine.”
In a statement on Tuesday, SEMED expressed concern about the “alarming” information recently published about anti-doping in Spain and CELAD and stressed that this is “a very important partner in SEMED’s fight to restore the sport’s specialization.” Medicine”.
“In the modern sports system, our specialty plays a decisive role in practice to achieve successful competitive sports in our country, but it allows the hard training that this competition requires, with the complete health of our athletes and the following of cheating practices, which end up polluting the sport,” he said.
In his opinion, “the alliance and synergy between SEMED and CELAD is an essential element” in the revival of sports medicine; So that athletes have trained doctors to care for them, and so that Spanish sports reduce the risks of doping.
“Although we realize that in this new cycle, it is very unlikely that the Director of CELAD will be a specialist in sports medicine again, we dare to ask the President of CELAD and its Board of Directors that he is a professional with an important sensitivity towards medicine,” he added. Athlete and knowledge of exercise physiology and sports pharmacology, allowing joint projects to advance and be crowned for the benefit of clean Spanish sport.”
The SEMED Board of Directors expressed itself in this way after the Supreme Council for Sports (CSD) referred to the Public Prosecutor's Office the result of the investigation conducted by the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports after the publication of the alleged irregularities committed at CELAD and to ask the Commission Director José Luis Terreros to resign. Evie
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