DG PSB asks athletes to treat doping as an avoided enemy.

ISLAMABAD -- Director General Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Col (r) Muhammad Asif Zaman has said that doping has become a social evil and athletes should treat it as an avoided enemy.

The athletes should hold the flag of fair play and save their professional careers. This is what sports are all about, he said while speaking at a two-day seminar on anti-doping awareness here at Pakistan Sports Complex, Islamabad.

Referring to the recent raid tests of International Testing Agency (ITA), he said this was really unfortunate and disturbing but the incident was also a lesson for everyone.

'Athletes must be careful even in their routine in-take and special diets. They should take only special diets duly recommended by the nutritionists and doctors,' he said.

He said the PSB doctors were available all the time for guidance in this...

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