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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.
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