Golf joins the ITA camp

The checklist goes on and on. The International Golf Federation (IGF) has determined to aspect with the International Control Agency (ITA). The two events have signed an preliminary cooperation settlement till 2025. It offers that the IGF will delegate its total anti-doping program to the ITA from this starting of the yr, together with the administration of the goal group of athletes topic to controls (RTP), location of gamers, administration of the athlete's organic passport (ABP) and therapeutic use authorizations (AUT). The ITA can even develop a long-term pattern storage and re-analysis technique for the worldwide federation. Finally, it should arrange academic actions on doping and its dangers throughout sure occasions on the worldwide golf calendar, together with the 2022 World Amateur Team Championships in France. ITA Director General Benjamin Cohen mentioned in a press release: “After its reinstatement as an Olympic sport at the Rio Games in 2016, the ITA has already overseen golf competitions at the 2018 Youth Games and the Tokyo 2020 Games.