Lorde named to FIA anti-doping committee

Dr Adrian Lorde has been elected to serve on the Anti-Doping Disciplinary Committee of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the world governing body of motor sport.

His election was confirmed at the FIA General Assembly in Baku, Azerbaijan on December 8, which was attended by the president of the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF), Senator Andrew Mallalieu.

Senator Mallalieu, who is a member of the FIA’s World Motor Sports Council, said: “I am delighted that the General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favour of the BMF’s nomination of Dr Lorde and we are so pleased that Barbados can be represented on this important committee.”

Dr Lorde, who will sit alongside committee members from Australasia, Europe and South America, said: “I was truly honoured to have been nominated by your organisation but to have been elected, I am elated. I look forward to the task and I will work to keep Barbados’s flag flying high.”

Dr Lorde, a longstanding Director of the Barbados Olympic Association, has served on several anti-doping committees.

He is a Director of the Barbados Olympic Association (BOA); the founding president of the Barbados Sports Medicine Association (BSMA); a former president of the Pan American Sports Medicine Federation (COPAMEDE); chairman of the National Anti-Doping Commission of Barbados and is the vice-chairman of the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organisation (RADO).

Dr Lorde has also been a member of the Medical Commissions of the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games and Pan American Games Sports Organisation since 1993.

He is also an Associate Lecturer in Family Medicine at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill and has presented papers in Sports Medicine and Anti-Doping at many local, regional and international conferences

Dr Lorde was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in her 2014 birthday honours for his contribution to Sports Medicine.

The FIA Anti-Doping Disciplinary Committee, whose president is Mexico’s Fernando Torres-Sotelo, is invested with disciplinary power in the first instance over drivers, support personnel and other persons who are suspected of having infringed the provisions of the FIA Anti-Doping Regulations (Appendix A to The International Sporting Code).

The decisions of the FIA Anti-Doping Disciplinary Committee may be appealed before the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
(PR)