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The Abu Dhabi CAS Alternative Hearing Centre of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) organised a webinar entitled "A Sports Law Analysis of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games" with the aim of exchanging ideas and visions on mechanisms to strengthen the role of law in supporting and organising sports activities, in line with the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, to consolidate comprehensive legal knowledge to deal with new legal cases and adopt a balanced approach to dispute resolution.
The event, which was held remotely via videoconferencing technology and attended by a panel of local and international sports arbitration experts and specialists, covered a range of topics, including the procedures and mechanisms developed to combat sports doping in the Olympics, and the technology doping in the Olympics, as well as the legal implications of Covid-19 on the Olympic Games.
The webinar was moderated by British lawyer, Chloe Veronica Syron, legal researcher in the Technical Office of the Undersecretary of the ADJD, amidst the presence and interaction of more than 900 people from 30 countries.
Dr. Abdulmajed Mahmoud, Head of the Technical Office of the Judicial Inspection at the ADJD, addressed the cooperation between the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) since 2012, when the CAS Alternative Hearing Centre in Abu Dhabi was established, to assume its role in the settlement of sports disputes, in addition to organising numerous specialised events in cooperation with the relevant international bodies to promote the culture of arbitration, while implementing qualification programmes for arbitrators and specialised lawyers.
In this regard, Dr. Abdulmajed announced the existence of an integrated plan to enhance the role of the CAS Alternative Hearing Centre to make it the approved centre in the Arab World and the Middle East region for arbitration proceedings, especially in light of the facilities and capacities available for holding hearings, stressing the efforts made with the relevant international authorities to make the Arabic language one of the approved languages in the field of sports arbitration in accordance with the applicable CAS rules.
For his part, Mr. Amr Adel, Testing and Athletes Service Lead for the UAE National Anti-Doping Agency, addressed the recent procedures that were applied for doping control during the Olympic Games in Tokyo, by relying on a paperless test management system, and using a sophisticated application to locate athletes in the Olympic Village in order to conduct out-of-competition tests, to facilitate communication with more than 200 National Olympic Committees worldwide, and use of modern anti-doping technologies such as the implementation of gene testing procedure for the first time in the history of the Games.
The anti-doping programmes, Mr. Amr Adel explained, seek to preserve the intrinsic value of sport, protect the health of athletes, and provide the opportunity for them to pursue sporting and ethical excellence without using prohibited methods and materials, in addition to maintaining sporting integrity in terms of respect for the rules and for other competitors, while ensuring fair competition, equal opportunities and promoting the values of clean sport in the world.
On his side, Mr. Tom Seamer, a barrister specialising in the field of sports, discussed the “Technology Doping in the Olympics” and its impact on the performance of the athletes if used in a way that violates the rules of sports, and is found to enhance the performance in a non-natural manner, thus creating an unequal playing field for the athletes engaged in the competition which is deemed a violation of the integrity of sports competitions.
Legal Affairs Specialist Dave Stern tackled the topic of "Legal Implications of COVID-19 on the Olympic Games" and the resulting problems of attendance controls at sporting events and their organisation without the public, or the inability of some athletes to attend competitions given the safeguards applied to protect the health of competitors, as well as requesting a release from athletes participating in sporting events in the event of a pandemic-related infection
Ms. Barbara Reeves, arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, spoke about "Equality and Diversity at the Games" and the efforts to address the problems of discrimination in sport competitions, as well as the need to ensure equal opportunities for all, achieving gender equality in various areas of sport and widening participation in leadership and management positions at local and international level.
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