Trivia Quiz

World Athletics may have created a Mission Order unique for the competition, which will include a Mission Order number which must be recorded on all doping control forms. If paper forms are being used, please request that the Sample Collection Authority enter the doping control form information into ADAMS within 72 hours of the sample being collected. At the Technical Meeting mention that Doping Control will be conducted at the competition and any athlete selected for doping control has the responsibility to provide photographic identification, for example, National ID card, passport, driving licence etc. If you get time during the competition, but importantly at the end of the competition please visit the Doping Control Station to see if all is going well. Ensure that the selected athletes have transport available to return to their accommodation once their test is complete. One area that occasionally generates a question from DCOs is regarding specific gravity (which is how watery a urine sample is). Acceptable specific gravity (SG) readings are 1.005 for volumes 90mls-149mls and 1.003 for volumes over 150mls. Should a reading be below the acceptable range the athlete is required to provide an additional sample. The reason a reading is low is usually because an athlete is very hydrated. For athletics, an athlete is required to keep providing samples until a sample is provided with an acceptable SG reading. The only justifiable reason for not collecting an additional sample is if logistical reasons (e.g. shortage of doping control equipment or closure of the venue and nowhere to relocate to) prevent an additional sample being collected.

Thank you for your help in ensuring the standard of antidoping is consistently high at European Athletics events.

By Richard Driscoll Member of the EA Medical and Anti-doping Commission

1. What movie about Steve Prefontaine starred Billy

Crudup as Pre? 2. Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the Olympic

Games in Berlin in 1936. Which event did he win first? 3. This male athlete broke the 18 meters mark in triple jump at the 1995 World Championships twice. Who is he? 4. Paula Radcliffe won three IAAF World Championships (in 2000, 2001, and 2003) with the following times respectively: 1:09.07, 1:06.47, and 1:07.35. In which event did these performances occur? 5. The 100 metres is the first event on day one of the decathlon. Which is the first on day two? 6. "I am an American discus thrower born in 1936. At the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne I won the gold medal. I would go on to win the gold medal in the next three Olympics as well. What is my name?" 7. Which Kenyan athlete broke four separate world records in one year, but never competed at the Olympic

Games? 8. At the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, Mike

Powell (USA) set a new world record with a jump of 8.95 meters. In 1950, this record was held by Jesse Owens.

How far did Jesse Owens jump? 9. How many hurdles are in a standard hurdles race? 10.Who held the world record for longest throw, with the old rules javelin before it was changed in 1986? How far did he throw? 11.Jamaica is well known for producing some of the best male sprinters to grace the world of athletics; and in the 200 metres at the London 2012 Olympics they had a clean sweep of the medals. Which of these athletes was NOT one of the three medallists? Usain Bolt;

Warren Weir; Yohan Blake; Asafa Powell 12.Which Ethiopian athlete won double gold (5000 metres and 10,000 metres) at the 1980 Olympic Games in

Moscow? 13.Who had the Olympic record in the Men's Discus throw before Lars Reidel broke in the 1996 games in Atlanta?