Caxito – Since 2004 Angola has recorded five cases of doping by Angolan athletes living and tested positive abroad, the director general of the National Centre for Sports Medicine, João Mulima said Friday in Caxito, Bengo province.
He explained that the cases of doping were tested positive in the diaspora, and that two of them are football players, one swimmer, one jiu-jitsu fighter and one athletics runner.
He announced that the anti-doping management entity in the country will be created in the near future, but pending the formal establishment of this body, the Angolan Olympic Committee (COA), in partnership with the Ministry of Youth and Sports take up this fight.
“The National Centre for Sports Medicine, as the ministry’s medical entity, will cover the fulfilment of Angola’s responsibility, for being a signatory of the UN convention charter against doping in sport,” he stressed.
Source: Angola Press News Agency