IFCC Webinar Rebroadcast - June 2026
“Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together”: When Laboratory Medicine meets Olympic Games
IFCC Webinar Series -
Rebroadcast by AACB, Thursday, 25 June 2026, 6:00pm - 7:00 pm
Paris is hosting summer Olympic games from 26 July to 11 august 2024. The Olympic motto is “Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together”. Sport-laboratory medicine can provide valuable contributions to the monitoring of athletes to improve performance and to preserve their health, to the diagnosis of athletic injuries, or to the screening of doping behavior to identifying cheating athletes. It is a relatively innovative branch of laboratory science, that is put in the spotlight of Olympic games 2024.
This webinar comprises of three following presentations of 20 min each followed by 20 min of panel discussion at the end.
Chair: Dr. Marie Lenski
Talk 1- “Biological indicators of interest in monitoring athletes and interpreting their variations to improve performance and to preserve their health” – Prof. Annabelle Dupont
Talk 2- “Doping behaviour and its monitoring in hair and nail clippings” – Dr. Laurie Gheddar
Talk 3- “WThe Athlete Biological Passport (ABP), Biology in the fight against doping” – Prof. Xavier Bigard
AACB is re-broadcasting this through GoToWebinar for the benefit of members unable to view the live presentation.