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.

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