Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.
In recent years athletics has been hit hard by the doping problem. One scandal after another has struck our proud sport, which we are so fond of. First it was in China that the skeletons came tumbling out of the closets. It was even worse in Russia, where an entire system, headed by the Russian athletics federation, made sure that practically every man and every woman was doped over a long period of years.
Suspicion of other countries is also enormous. No one believes any more that the perpetual motion machines, the great runners from Kenya and Ethiopia, don’t have EPO as part of both their main meals and their snacks.
The doping problem is also affecting our neighbouring countries. Sweden’s Aregawi, whom we have praised to the skies for a few years now, has also been caught for doping.
The IAAF, the international athletics federation, is therefore launching a crackdown in which everyone competing at a higher level must now give a urine sample, so that ONLY athletes who have ALREADY proven themselves clean are allowed to compete.
For us in the Faroe Islands this means that all athletes hoping to compete at the Island Games, VU-spelen, the Danish Championships, Tårnby Games etc. must now take a doping test.
Dansk Atletikforbund and FÍF have therefore made an agreement that FÍF will take care of all the Faroese athletes. We at FÍF are therefore calling on all athletes in the talent group and on the Island Games national team to turn up in the technical room at Tórsbreyt this afternoon, Friday.
You must bring your own container. A good idea for a container is an empty, well-washed beetroot jar (see photo). The jar has a good radius and also a good screw lid.
To show the size of the beetroot jar, we have placed a clothes peg next to it. Other similar jars can also be used
It will be organised so that everyone meets in the technical room. Then, one at a time, you go with Sofus Johannesen from Antidoping Føroyar down to the toilet to fill the jar. Trine Skov Møgelvang from Antidoping Danmark is coordinating the event and will also be present in the girls’ toilet.
It is therefore essential that you turn up to take this test today, 1 April, at 16:00 at Tórsbreyt.
Sofus Johannesen has been taking doping tests in the Faroe Islands ever since we started testing in the Faroe Islands
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