|  | Foreword | No.50 May 2007 |

President’s Message |
As most of you might know already, Christophe Mailliet has left the ICSSPE office and I first of all would like to give him my sincere thanks for all that he has done for this organization. Christophe has been working at the ICSSPE office as Executive Director since it started its work in Berlin in 1997. It was a great privilege for me to have such a competent and committed expert by my side and within the ICSSPE family for the last 10 years! I think for most ICSSPE members he was the “soul” of the office and we will always remember him as a stable center of the organisation. At the same time I want to acknowledge and congratulate him on his new job at streetfootballworld as Executive Manager and we hope to continue collaboration with him in many different ways. I also want to express my great pleasure and relief that Detlef Dumon has taken over and is now our new Executive Director. He has been working with us for over six years and through his reliable and enthusiastic work he guarantees a smooth transition and an inconspicuous continuation of all projects ICSSPE has. Right now we are busily preparing two upcoming events: the Dimensions of Performance conference on elite schools in Sports in September and the Seminar “Sport in Post Disaster Intervention” in November. Both are very exciting and interesting events and we would be happy to welcome you all to one or the other. Just before the publication of this Bulletin we had another event here in Berlin: The sports and law conference in Berlin on “Doping and Corruption” which was organised by the International Sport Lawyers Association (ISLA) and supported by TAFISA, the LSB Berlin and ICSSPE. The conference was divided into two parts: on the first day, 25 May, the main issue was doping with a group of international speakers and a panel discussion on athletes under doping suspicion. The dialogue on 26 May had an emphasis on “Clean Sport – an Illusion?” Of course we are now also very busy setting up the International Convention on Science Education and Medicine in Sport (ICSEMIS 2008), that will take place 1-5 August 2008 in Guangzhou, China, prior to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. For the first time the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, the International Federation of Sports Medicine and ICSSPE have signed a contract to organise this major event in close co-operation, instead of having separate congresses. ICSEMIS 2008 will bring together experts, researchers and practitioners from all continents and all members of ICSSPE will soon receive a letter from me inviting them to make an active contribution to this exceptional conference. The programme and procedures are just being finalised and you will find the first announcement and the call for papers on our website at the beginning of June. Please contact ICSSPE if you are planning on participating. At this point I want to extend a special thanks to all of our colleagues who are part of these projects and supporting us in many different ways. I would also like to thank the ICSSPE Editorial Board who, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Darlene Kluka, held another very productive Editorial Board meeting in Pretoria in March and which is always anxious to develop interesting publications to make contributions to increasing the knowledge base in sport science and physical education on an international level! Prof. Dr. Gudrun Doll-Tepper President ICSSPE http://www.icsspe.org/portal/index.php?w=1&z=5 President’s Message