ITA offer webinar focusing on parents and guardians and their role in clean sport

18 May. 2022

ITA offer webinar focusing on parents and guardians and their role in clean sport

The International Testing Agency (ITA) has announced their fifth webinar of 2022, which will take place on Tuesday 31 May between 14:00 and 15:00 CEST. This time, the event will focus on parents and guardians and their role in Clean Sport.

“Parents and guardians of young athletes have many roles. As well as being their child’s number one fan, they are their taxi driver, nutritionist, psychologist. Alongside this, parents and guardians also have an important role in their child’s development as a clean athlete. This requires an understanding of anti-doping rules, and just as importantly, an ability to positively influence their child’s values and behaviours, which in turn can prevent doping,” ITA say about this webinar. 

The moderator of this episode of the webinar series conducted by the ITA will be Mairi Irvine from the ITA Education Team, while the panellists will be Dr Lubna Sibtain, an IOC Certified Sport Physician, whose daughter was the first female swimmer and the youngest female Olympian from Pakistan, and Jodi Brown, a former international netball player, parent, and a member of the Drug Free Sport New Zealand's Education Team. 

Parents, guardians, all athletes, and others who work with young athletes, will have an opportunity to tune in. The webinar will be conducted in English, with translation into four additional languages – Arabic, Spanish, French and Russian – available.

To register for the webinar, click here