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Medical and Veterinary
Control
The organisation of doping control
and femininity test, which were to be
carried out in accordance with the
Olympic Charter (Rule 27) and IOC
Medical Commission rules, was one of
the tasks of the Organising Committee.
The doping control service was set up
for this purpose.
The IOC Medical Commission
issued a list of drugs and anabolic
steroids which the athletes were prohibited
from taking by the IOC. This
list of drugs fell into five groups:
psychomotor stimulants, sympathomimetic
amines, central nervous
system stimulators, pain-killing narcotic
preparations which contained general
doping, and anabolic steroids.
The Doping Control Committee
was organised in 1977 to meet the
requirements of the IOC Medical Commission.
It included 12 scientists, doctors
and sports specialists. Prof.
V. Rogozkin, a member of the IOC
Medical Commission, was appointed
chairman of the Doping Control Committee,
which was a public body. It
worked out organisational and
methodological materials and helped
organise medical control at the
Games.
The doping control service began
to function in 1980. Most of the
193
members of the Doping Control Committee
held leading posts in it, and it
was headed by the committee
chairman.
A Doping Control Centre was set
up under this service for the Games.
The building put up to house it in
Moscow, fitted out with the latest
equipment, was completed in mid-
1979. In July of the same year the
workers at the doping laboratory attached
to the All-Union Research Institute
of Physical Culture, which later
on became part of the Doping Control
Centre, began to get used to handling
the equipment.
At the same time the doping control
service opened doping stations at
various sports installations and supervised
the work of fitting them out with
equipment. Services were also organised
for transporting and looking after
samples.
All in all there were 31 doping
stations set up: 27 permanent and two
temporary at the Moscow-Minsk Highway
for the team-time trial and at the
Grand Arena of the Lenin Stadium for
jumping (individual competition), one
was at the polyclinic in the Olympic
Village (to take samples late at night)
and one was a veterinary control
station for taking samples from
horses.
The doping control service had a
laboratory for femininity tests. It was
housed in a specially equipped room in
the polyclinic at the Olympic
Village, and its workers were
mainly specialists from the Institute
of Medical Genetics attached to
the Academy of Sciences of the
USSR.
The work of the doping control
service was put to the test during the
VII USSR Summer Spartakiade, when
certain organisational and technical
shortcomings came to light and were
eliminated.
A meeting of the IOC Medical
Commission was held in October 1979
Doping control stations at
competition sites