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On November 6th, 2003, ICSSPE-President Prof. Dr. Gudrun
Doll-Tepper and IOC President Jacques Rogge presented the ICSSPE Sport
Science Award of the IOC President . An international jury decided to honour the Belgian sport scientist
Prof. Dr. Roland Renson in the Social Sciences category, and the Copenhagen
Muscle Research Centre, directed by Prof. Dr. Bengt Saltin for their work
in the field of Biomedical Sciences.
"Museums have to be alive"
Prof. Dr Roland Renson from the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium,
has undertaken extensive cultural comparative research about the historical
development of sport and games. He contributes to the protection of
traditional games and sport cultures and supports movement and play
behaviour in our society. One practical example of his work is the founding
of the Flemish Sport Museum in Leuven, where visitors can rent the exhibited
objects. Professor Renson is Honourary President of the International
Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport. Training: Physiology, Metabolism and Health
The Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre is honoured
for their discovery of training related physiological and metabolic reactions
as well as the implications to healthy and ill athletes. Research methods
of Prof. Dr. Bengt Saltin are characterised by the combination of surgery
and systemic cell level work. For many years, Saltin has been active in
research on blood and genetic doping. He is the head of the Danish anti-doping
programme, cooperates closely with WADA and is actice in the Medical Committee
of the International Ski Federation (FIS). He is also a member of the
Danish Academy of Science and has already received many national and international
awards, including last year's IOC Olympic Prize.
http://www.icsspe.org/portal/bulletin-january2004.htm
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