Australian Fencing Federation

ASADA Fact Sheets

ASADA's Fact Sheets have been updated on
the ASADA website

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The fact sheets are designed to provide athletes and support personnel with vital anti-doping information.

For further information about anti-doping rules and regulations, please visit the ASADA website www.asada.gov.au or
call the ASADA Anti-Doping Hotline on 1800 020 506.

If you would like to provide ASADA with feedback about our Anti-Doping education products and services, email us at education@asada.gov.au

- posted by Chris Ryan on 13/05/2008 at 20:00

ATUE forms and TUE forms update

The ASDMAC TUE application form was updated in February 2008 and the new form can be found on their website at http://www.asdmac.org.au/apply.htm

If you have an FIE International licence you should access this form on the FIE website
http://www.fie.ch

Abbreviated Therapeutic Use forms (ATUE) can be accessed on the ASADA website for non-international fencers and sent to the AFF, or on the FIE website for International licence holders.

In short, if you have an FIE International licence proceed to the FIE website for your forms.
If not, you need to go to the ASDMAC website for a TUE, and
to ASADA for a simple ATUE which is then sent to the AFF.

- posted by Andrew Harcourt on 22/04/2008 at 19:00

2008 AFF #1 (D H McKenzie) Tournament - Results

The AFF congratulates the following winners of the 2008 AFF Torunament #1 - the DH McKenzie Tournament, held in Melbourne from 28-30 March:
Open
Men’s Foil: Marcus BEST (Vic)
Women’s Foil: Jade SARAH (Qld)
Men’s Epee: Victor LEWITH (Vic)
Women’s Epee: Catherine MACKAY (Vic)
Men’s Sabre: Simon LEITCH (Qld)
Women’s Sabre: Jessica BROOKS (NSW)

Veteran
Men’s Foil: Richard PURDIE (NSW)
Women’s Foil: Jenny BONNEY-MILLETT (Qld)
Men’s Epee: Richard PURDIE (NSW)
Women’s Epee: Angela DOBSON-BLOCK (Vic)
Men’s Sabre: Richard PURDIE (NSW)
Women’s Sabre: Harriet JORDAN (NSW)
All final rankings, detailed results (pools, D/E tableaux, etc) are available from: www.ausfencingevents.org

Andrew Ius
for AFF

- posted by Chris Ryan on 30/03/2008 at 18:00

URGENT ADVICE re Travelan and Colostrum

The Australian Oympic Committee (AOC) had recently advised the Australian Fencing Federation (AFF) that following recent media reports regarding the use of colostrum by an Australian athlete, Dr Olivier Rabin, Director, Science of the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) provided the following advice on 19 March:
“WADA would like to take this opportunity to emphasize that colostrum contains Insulin Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) a substance prohibited under section S.2 of the 2008 WADA Prohibited List. Even if influence of oral intake of colostrum on plasma concentration of IGF-1 is still a matter of debate within the scientific community, WADA would like to alert that abnormal increase or level of blood circulating IGF-1 would be considered as potentially revealing doping practices (e.g hGH or IGF-1 intake) by athletes.

WADA wishes to draw your utmost care in the use of colostrum by athletes.”
Given WADA's cautionary advice, the AOC has recommended, in the strongest possible terms, that athletes and sports officials on the inherent risks of using colostrum as a supplement and counsels them against its use.
With respect of WADA’s advice, it is appropriate to extend the AOC recommendation to all products containing colostrum, including Travelan. The AOC had initially recommended the use of Travelan by teams traveling to China as a traveller’s diarrhoea prevention agent. However, given this most recent advice the AOC does not now support its use by members of the Australian Olympic Team or AFF athletes.
The AOC will now review other possible preventative measures for traveller’s diarrhoea and provide the AFF with further advice in due course.
This information and recommended action is being drawn to the attention of all athletes on the AFF Weapon Squads and those competing at the upcoming Cadet & Junior World Championships and the Asian Senior Championships.

Andrew Ius
for AFF

- posted by Chris Ryan on 30/03/2008 at 17:30

FIE modifications to target area in Foil

Modifications to FIE Rule t.47.2 which comes into effect
as of 1st January 2009 and modifies the target area in Foil to include the bib of the mask.

'The target at foil excludes the limbs and the head. It is confined to the trunk, the upper limit being the collar up to 6 cm above the prominences of the collar bones; at the
sides to the seams of the sleeves, which should cross the head of the humerus; and the lower limit following a horizontal line across the back joining the tops of the hip bones, thence by straight lines to the junction of the lines of the groin. It also includes the part of the bib
below a horizontal line that is 1.5 - 2 cm lower than the chin and which, in any case, cannot be lower than the line of the shoulders.'

The AFF intends to adopt this new rule as of 1 January 2009.

Further details regarding the proposed new technology to cover the bib and make it part of the valid target will be supplied by the FIE during
2008. It is anticipated that this will involve a cover for the bib that is connected to the lame jacket, thus making it part of the valid target.

- posted by Chris Ryan on 29/03/2008 at 20:30