WADA Rules Altitude Training Legal, Effective
September 16, 2006

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) officials decided Saturday not to ban hypoxic tents, which may allow athletes to gain
endurance-boosting results of altitude without the travel.

WADA president Dick Pound announced the decision not to include the machines that produce artificial hypoxic conditions and
altitude tents on the banned training method list.  Three WADA commissions examined the tents and suggested not banning them,
conforming to the vast majority of committee members in saying they should not be on the prohibited list for 2007.

"The biggest item for discussion was whether we should put on the list of prohibited methods artificially hypoxic conditions and the
consensus - in fact the overwhelming consensus of our heatlh, medicine and research committees - was that, at this time, it was not
appropriate to do so," said Pound.

Pound said although WADA has an issue with the fact that no effort is involved with altitude training, and the technique is effective at
boosting performance, it would be difficult to enforce a ban.

Source -- Agence France Presse
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