Saturday November, 29th, 2008
08.00 Registration, coffee, breakfast
08.50 Welcome Address
H. Nielens, Chair of the Medical and Scientific
Committee of the BOIC-COIB
09.00 Clinical sports medicine and the Olympic athlete
session
• Medical report of the Beijing Olympic Games
Marc Van Grinsven and/or Johan Bellemans,
BOIC-COIB, Belgium
• IOC medical report of the Beijing Olympic Games
Patrick Schamasch, IOC, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Guidelines for the traveling team physician
Vincent Lacroix, McGill University Sports Medicine Clinic,
Montreal, Canada
• Questions & Answers
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Applied physiology and the Olympic athlete session,
part I
• How to influence protein synthesis by food intake
and exercise
Kevin Tipton, University of Birmingham, UK
• How skeletal muscle buffer capacity can be
influenced by training
David Bishop, Università degli Studi di Verona,
Italy
• Questions & Answers
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Applied physiology and the Olympic athlete session,
part II
• Applied physiology and the Olympic athlete
Peter Hespel, KUL & Marc Francaux, UCL, Belgium
• Applied physiology of the Paralympic Wheelchair athlete
Nick Webborn, The Sussex Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine - University of Brighton, UK
• Award winning communication of the 1st Sports
Medicine and Sports Sciences evening of the
BOIC-COIB
• Questions & Answers
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 The young Olympic athlete
• Prevention of injuries in the young Olympic
athlete
Roald Bahr, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway
• Ethical Aspects and The young Olympic athlete
Jacques Rogge, IOC President
17.00 Closing cocktail