The association receives calls from athletes, most amateurs, facing doping …
Ten digits, 3,000 calls per year and many questions.
Since 1998, the line “Listen Doping” is open to all athletes.
“The association was created in the wake of the Festina affair and has been up for fifteen years, according to Emilie Kersumec, Director of Doping info service, the Montpellier-based association that manages the anonymous online on behalf of the Ministry of Sports.
Recently the doping debate returned to the the Senate inquiry dedicated to the effectiveness of the fight against this scourge.
The AFLD has even said that rugby was the sport most affected by proportion of controls. “… we are not contacted by the sports where there is a lot of doping in sports but where the number is more readily released, “said Emilie Kersumec.
“We got calls from people who want to know what product to take, where to find it, what dosage, how to avoid control”
By volume, cycling is always ahead … because “this is where we talk the most and where it is most aware of the existence of the toll.” Doping info service, which involves psychologists, sports medicine and even … a veterinarian for doping animals. The real change in recent years is the rejuvenation of those who call, “adolescents between 15 and 20 years.”
