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PLAY TRUE DAY

in Slovenia

Play True Day is a day dedicated to the clean sport. It was originally initiated by 17 South American

countries, which, in cooperation with WADA and based on Montevideo Declaration, declared 10th of

April as “Play True Day”. The purpose of “Play True Day” is to acquaint sport and public with global fight

against doping.

In the scope of Erasmus+ project, Slovenian Anti-Doping Organisation as well as other partner countries

in the project (Estonia, Latvia, Croatia and Malta) decided to enforce the Play True Day in Europe as well

and organize numerus doping prevention activities in the week before and after 10th of April.

In Slovenia Play True Day was organized for different target groups – from athletes and their support

personnel to students and lawyers. Play True Day campaign was carried out at more than 64 different

sport events and we managed to gather more than 2.700 signatures for the support of clean sport.

Several Slovenian media published the news about the Play True Day.

This report contains main activities that were carried out in Slovenia.

Play True day was also celebrated in Romania, countries of Caribbean RADO (16 countries), Puerto Rico

and in Paraguay.

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Play True Day for athletes of Football Association of Slovenia

Football Association of Slovenia together with SLOADO prepared a special campaign for football players.

The campaign was carried out and entirely financed by Football Association. Prevention activities were

carried out for the players of first Slovenian league, junior and cadet league, members of national team

under 21 years and woman’s national team.

All the players in above mentioned leagues and national teams signed a special pledge that they will act

according to the Code and

that they will not use doping

in their carriers.

On all first league, junior

and cadet league

competitions on 9th and

10th of April players wore T-

shirts with Play True Day

design when they walked on

the playing fields. Members

of woman's national team

wore the T-shirts on the

qualification match with

Macedonia on 12 of April in

Lendava.

Activities were documented

and promoted on web side

and social media of Football

Association, SLOADO and

football clubs.

The pledge was also available on http://www.prvaliga.si/fb/zaobljuba/ were young athletes could signed

it and print it and with this show their commitment to clean sport.

Prevention activities were carried out on 23 different football matches. 36 club teams, 2 national teams,

around 800 players, over 200 members of athletes support personnel, judges and delegates were

included in this campaign as well as spectators on the matches and people watching these matches over

television.

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Play True Day at Marathon Istra

In the cooperation with the organizers Play True Day was carried out at 3rd Banka Marathon Istra in

Portorož.

Slovenian Anti-Doping Ambassadors had an

outreach program on 9th of April when there

were children's and junior's runs and on 10th

of April when there was marathon race.

Outreach stand was located at the start /

finish area. Participants had an option to test

their knowledge with prePLAY quiz, talk to

ambassadors or sign on the transparent to

show their support to clean sport. There were

also informational materials available.

More than 580 recreational athletes,

members of their families and spectators

visited our stand.

Play True Day for coaches

With the support of Ministry for Education, Science and Sport and Municipality of Ljubljana SLOADO

organized a conference for athletes that are included into the sport programs of Ministry, Municipality

of Ljubljana or National Sport Federations.

At the seminar all the contents of fight

against that are important for coaches’

successful work were presented.

Seminar took place on 5th of April in

Ljubljana.

181 coaches from 28 different sports

were present.

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Play True Day for athletes at schools

Since 2011 SLOADO is carrying out lectures for athletes at Slovenian high schools with sport

departments. Based on good cooperation with schools and with the support from ministry for

education, Science and sport we decided to

enforce Play True day in schools as well.

SLOADO prepared materials for anti-

doping discussions which were carried out

by physical education professors.

Activities were carried out in all schools

(17) with sport departments and 1.119

athletes were part of it.

Play True Day at Spring Day of Sport in Ljubljana

In the scope of the project »Razgibajmo Ljubljano« (Lets exercise Ljubljana) outreach program was

carried out on 16th of April at Spring

Day of Sport in Ljubljana.

At Spring Day of sport Ljubljana's

sport clubs presented their sport

programs for children. SLOADO

prepared some special materials and

games for children and we had

prePLAY quiz and informational

materials for their parents.

202 people visited SLOADO stand.

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Play True Day for lawyers

In cooperation with Association for sport law and Faculty

for law SLOADO organized legal seminar in Ljubljana on

13th of April. The seminar addressed legal aspects of fight

against doping. Prominent experts from different fields

presented their view on the fight against doping.

There were 72 participants at the seminar. At the end they

actively participated in the discussion and they asked many

interesting questions and exposed the problems of certain

areas.

Play True Day for medical students and professor and Medical Faculty

in Maribor

In the scope of Cogito project Association of medical students of Maribor prepared a round table with

the title »The role of physicians in the fight for clean sport« on 13th of April 2016. Guests from different

fields (pharmacy, psychology,

philosophy) discussed the legalization

of doping, communication between

physicians and athletes, doping

mentality and consequences of lack of

knowledge in doping field by

physicians.

Round table was intended primarily

for students and professor at medical

faculty of Maribor. It was prepared

and lead by Slovenian Anti-Doping

Ambassador Živa Ledinek.

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Play True Day in shopping malls in Slovenian major cities

Outreach programs at shopping malls in Slovenian major cities were targeting general public and were

carried out in cooperation with Intersport Slovenia.

Between 2nd and 17th of April ambassadors visited

Ljubljana, Maribor, Celje, Novo Mesto, Kranj and

Koper. They had outreach stands at Mercator malls

where they talked to the people and had some

games for children. They were also collecting

signatures for the support of clean sport – 359

people signed on the board.

Play True Day in cooperation with National Sport Federations and Sport

Clubs

SLOADO invited all national sport federation and clubs to join them in celebrating Play True Day. Beside

Football Association of Slovenia, Slovenian Shooting Federation, Slovenian Floorball Association,

Slovenian American Football Association, Speed roller Skating Federation Slovenia, Table Tennis club

Fužinar, XP Fitness Centre, Institute for Sport Ajdovščina and Centre Urban Roof responded. There were

posters and informational materials for athletes and spectator on 10 competitions.

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Play True Day in Slovenian media

News about Play True Day were mentioned in some of Slovenian media. We would like to stress out the

contribution in the news and in the programme Good morning at national television and on one of the

most important web media Siol.net.

National Sport Federations, Sport Clubs and schools with sport departments published the news about

the Play True day and their activities in the scope of this campaign on their websites and on their social

media.