It’s a privilege to celebrate with you

ISALUTE the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) on the occasion of its 10th anniversary and applaud the role it continues to play in making sport clean.

I exhort the commission to use education as its primary vehicle through which athletes are empowered to live the values in sport and to self-actualise.

Compliance may be secured by enforcement, but acceptance is achieved through knowledge acquired and a deepening understanding of the culture of ‘keeping sport clean always’.

Our civic responsibility compels us to ameliorate the mind in reforming conduct, to internalise ideals in defining character and attitudes, and to give expression to the precepts of Olympism in thought, word and deed.

At the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), we embrace fair play in competition simpliciter, but more so as it is demonstrative of character, verity and goodwill. Sport, now more than ever, requires clean hands on deck and an intolerance of any efforts whatsoever to colt the game.

JADCO is a caretaker of the health and weal of sport, and its partnership with other stakeholders must bequeath to successive generations of athletes, coaches and administrators’ self-enlightenment that teaches wisdom in discerning, simply, right from wrong and the truth.

The JOA deems it a privilege to celebrate with you 10 years of your life in sport in reflection but, more importantly, with vision.

CHRISTOPHER L. SAMUDA President

Jamaica Olympic Association