Organised Crime and Drugs in Sport: Did They Teach Us About That in Medical School?

There was a startling press conference attended by the Australian Minister for Justice, the Minister for Sport, the Chief Executive Officer of Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) and the leaders of the major sporting codes in Australia. High-performance sporting organisations, even relatively small organisations, should have a ‘supplementation panel’ comprising at least three of a sports nutritionist, the head of strength and conditioning, the athletic performance manager and the team/organisation doctor. Team doctors providing sports medicine services to high-performance teams often limit their involvement to matters of illness and injury, allowing supplementation policies and protocols to be controlled by others in the organisation.