WHO IS ENTITLED TO USE FOREIGN DECODERS TO
PICK UP GAMES BROADCASTS?
I chaired a meeting of the European Sports
Platform in Brussels last week.
Doping in sport was one of the topics we
covered. Top athletes are all subject to regular, without notice, dope tests
which carry severe penalties. They are subject to strict liability, so that if
a trace of a banned substance is found the penalties are automatic. Concern has
arisen that nutritional supplements could contain trace elements of banned
supplement which an athlete might take in complete ignorance. The possibility
of EU action to deal with this problem, especially as regards sales over the
internet from one country to another, was raised. This topic will be very
topical during this Olympic year
We also discussed the Murphy judgement of
the European Court of Justice which
concerned the use of decoders from one EU country to pick up
broadcasts from another EU country at a lesser fee than might be charged at home. While the Court said such
decoders were acceptable for private use, it was not acceptable to use them to
broadcast of games in a public house.
This issue has implications
for the funding of sport, because
sports organisations depend
for a large part of their income on broadcasting revenues.
We also had a presentation on the work of
the European Deaf Sports Federation. People with hearing difficulties, who rely
on sign language for communication, have special difficulties in team sports and the Federation, founded as far back as
1924, is doing good work to overcome
these difficulties.
3 comments:
It's not out of the realm of possibility. That's why I went out of my way to double check everything before I decided to start using pgx.
The usual suspects were pre workout supplements where many believed had... Steroids. Maybe from China but here in the US, they are tested under strict health compliance by the authorities.
Aren't the coaches strict regarding these supplements? They should research on its contents before they give it to their athletes/players, because they're risking not just their jobs, but also their athletes' health. I know a lot of cases where most athletes play doped - some of them are true, some aren't. But we should still be very careful.
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