The Green Puck is used at warm-ups in IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship tournaments.
photo: Francois Laplante / HHOF-IIHF Images
Since 2014 we celebrate every year in April the Play True Day with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) – a day that is dedicated to clean sport and the protection of athletes.
Normally we do that during our high season full of international events with men’s, women’s and under-18 tournaments taking place including some anti-doping education for the younger ones. Unfortunately all events these days had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
However, with many hockey players and fans having to sit at home without their beloved sport, we use this day for something special. We have a quiz with questions like these four below and if you take part on our social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram (Stories), Twitter or VK and answer correctly, you have the chance to win one of these green pucks that are using during warm-up at IIHF competitions as a symbol for the fight for clean sport and against doping. Players get asked such questions in our educational sessions. See how good you would do.
Here are some questions (answer will follow on this page during the next days).
1. If a player is banned from ice hockey, could he then still compete as a football player?
a) Yes, the player is only banned from playing ice hockey
b) Yes, as long as he is not playing football professionally, because he is only banned from professional sport
c) No, the player is banned from all activities for all sports
Answer c. Once a player is banned for a doping violation, that player is banned from participating, both as an amateur and as a professional, in all sports of which the International Federation is a signatory of the World-Anti Doping Code.
2. A Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE):
a) Allows a player to use, for therapeutic purposes only, an otherwise prohibited substance or method
b) Exempts a player from his obligation to undergo doping control
c) Is handed out by the team doctor to players with an injury
Answer is a. A player that needs to use an otherwise prohibited substance or method for medical reasons shall submit an application for a TUE to the IIHF. The IIHF TUE Committee composed of medical experts will then determine whether the TUE is granted or not. However, even with a TUE, a player will still have to undergo doping control.
3. The WADA Prohibited List:
a) Contains all substances that are allowed to take
b) Is updated at least every year
c) Contains all prohibited substances and their synonyms
Answer is b. e WADA Prohibited List, which is updated at least annually, contains the list of all substances that are prohibited. However, it does not contain the synonyms of these substances and therefore players are advised to thoroughly check all substances before ingestion, including the synonyms of those substances.
4. If a medication is ok to use in the player’s home country is it ok to buy the same medication overseas?
a) Yes, no problem
b) Yes, but you have to register it over the anti-doping system
c) No, it could be manufactured differently and therefore contain a prohibited substance
Answer is c. A player always has to check all of the ingredients of a medicine to make sure that none of them is mentioned on the prohibited list, even if the player is familiar with the product.
5. If a supplement has been through a quality check, is the player safe to use it?
a) Yes, the supplement is safe
b) Yes, the supplement is safe as long as none of the ingredients mentioned on the packaging is prohibited
c) No, there is no guarantee when taking supplements, as the supplement industry is not regulated
Answer is c. The IIHF encourages you to be extremely careful with supplements as the rules for supplements are less strict than the rules for medication. Namely, a supplement manufacturer is not obliged to mention all of the ingredients of the supplement on the packaging and thus a supplement could contain a prohibited substance without mentioning it.
Congrats to the winner of a green puck in the social media competitions:
Normally we do that during our high season full of international events with men’s, women’s and under-18 tournaments taking place including some anti-doping education for the younger ones. Unfortunately all events these days had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
However, with many hockey players and fans having to sit at home without their beloved sport, we use this day for something special. We have a quiz with questions like these four below and if you take part on our social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram (Stories), Twitter or VK and answer correctly, you have the chance to win one of these green pucks that are using during warm-up at IIHF competitions as a symbol for the fight for clean sport and against doping. Players get asked such questions in our educational sessions. See how good you would do.
Here are some questions (answer will follow on this page during the next days).
1. If a player is banned from ice hockey, could he then still compete as a football player?
a) Yes, the player is only banned from playing ice hockey
b) Yes, as long as he is not playing football professionally, because he is only banned from professional sport
c) No, the player is banned from all activities for all sports
Answer c. Once a player is banned for a doping violation, that player is banned from participating, both as an amateur and as a professional, in all sports of which the International Federation is a signatory of the World-Anti Doping Code.
2. A Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE):
a) Allows a player to use, for therapeutic purposes only, an otherwise prohibited substance or method
b) Exempts a player from his obligation to undergo doping control
c) Is handed out by the team doctor to players with an injury
Answer is a. A player that needs to use an otherwise prohibited substance or method for medical reasons shall submit an application for a TUE to the IIHF. The IIHF TUE Committee composed of medical experts will then determine whether the TUE is granted or not. However, even with a TUE, a player will still have to undergo doping control.
3. The WADA Prohibited List:
a) Contains all substances that are allowed to take
b) Is updated at least every year
c) Contains all prohibited substances and their synonyms
Answer is b. e WADA Prohibited List, which is updated at least annually, contains the list of all substances that are prohibited. However, it does not contain the synonyms of these substances and therefore players are advised to thoroughly check all substances before ingestion, including the synonyms of those substances.
4. If a medication is ok to use in the player’s home country is it ok to buy the same medication overseas?
a) Yes, no problem
b) Yes, but you have to register it over the anti-doping system
c) No, it could be manufactured differently and therefore contain a prohibited substance
Answer is c. A player always has to check all of the ingredients of a medicine to make sure that none of them is mentioned on the prohibited list, even if the player is familiar with the product.
5. If a supplement has been through a quality check, is the player safe to use it?
a) Yes, the supplement is safe
b) Yes, the supplement is safe as long as none of the ingredients mentioned on the packaging is prohibited
c) No, there is no guarantee when taking supplements, as the supplement industry is not regulated
Answer is c. The IIHF encourages you to be extremely careful with supplements as the rules for supplements are less strict than the rules for medication. Namely, a supplement manufacturer is not obliged to mention all of the ingredients of the supplement on the packaging and thus a supplement could contain a prohibited substance without mentioning it.
Congrats to the winner of a green puck in the social media competitions:
- Joona Petteri Karén from Lahti, Finland
- Peter Scott from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Virginia Wesner from Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
- Anastasia Osetrova from Nizhni Novgorod, Russia
- Mike Telford from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Julia Embid Betes from Jaca, Spain
- Daniil Karpovich from Minsk, Belarus
- Eloi Lindas from Montigny-les-Metz, France
- Tanja Zoller from Walenstadt, Switzerland
- Yelizaveta Durmasheva, Berezovski rayon, Russia
- Nikolai Kustov, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
The original Green Puck, which was green on all sides, was introduced in 2010 and here presented by Germany’s Marcel Goc before the opening game of the 2010 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.
photo: Jukka Rautio / IIHF-HHOF Images