The Clean Protocol™ has been designed on advice from a range of experts including PhD’s in pshychology, neuroscience and sports physiology. The system has been meticulously compiled to give the highest level of confidence in the Clean Protocol™ certification.
The Clean Protocol™ is not a lie detector test and doesn’t use polygraph technology. It uses a unique system of 9 levels of multi-tiered verification to deliver the most advanced system of clean sports authentication.
Maybe it’s not the ultimate and definitive test, but anything that fights against doping is welcome. At the moment it’s only open for professional athletes. Many of them are quite vocal against doping but let’s see how many of them go to action and take this test.
What do you think?
I find it interesting that they choose triathlon to launch the Clean Protocol. Maybe Slowtwitch can write an article about this, the validity of the method, reactions of the pro athletes, if they are willing to implement it…
It looks like basically a vow to be clean coupled with some pseudo science on lying. The real hook seems to be appealing to fans to make this mandatory. That way even if it doesn’t work, presumably the people behind the product get paid regardless, as fans demand that certain associations adopt this “protocol”.
Minor rant - If you can set up a website with (presumably) some sort of hosting, why can’t you take 5 minutes and set up an email address through your domain? Bugs me when a “professional” organization such as this purports to be uses a free gmail/hotmail/other mailbox.
What happens if I don’t pass?
It should be noted that at no stage do we comment or report on any athlete who fails the protocol. Our only advice to athletes who may be currently cheating the rules of sport is to come back clean and take the Clean Protocol. There is no disadvantage for athletes.
This should tell you everything you need to know. Even if they could catch dopers, what’s the point of something that is non-binding?
You sir, shall receive a stern finger wagging. Bad doper, bad!
This should tell you everything you need to know. Even if they could catch dopers, what’s the point of something that is non-binding?
You sir, shall receive a stern finger wagging. Bad doper, bad!
Still useful as long as the results are public.
The system is crap, don’t get me wrong. But the voluntary model could have a role in the overall anti-doping strategy.
If some organization wants athletes to voluntarily and publicly commit to a higher standard than required by WADA, I don’t see a problem with that model. Because ultimately the accountability is provided by the mere publicity.
E.g. Astana doesn’t have to skip the Tour of Beijing coming up. They could pull out of the MPCC and race. But then they’d lose what miniscule shred of credibility (don’t laugh) they have with sponsors and fans.
“Once the Whoabouts™ is disclosed the next step is to also have those persons in their sports entourage take the Clean Protocol™”
I wonder how much it costs to be part of this programme and who is expected to bear the cost of all that? I think the aim is laudable, but the process seems so ridiculously convoluted and opaque from the few details they do give.