COVID-19 Coronavirus Update from Sport Medicine Advisory Committee: Apr 29, 2020 »

COVID-19 Coronavirus Update from Sport Medicine Advisory Committee: Apr 29, 2020

This update includes:

Return to Training in Groups

At a Town Hall call involving NSOs and national sport partners on 27 April a Risk Assessment Tool for Sport that will allow groups and teams to assess risk and mitigation of this risk was presented in a draft form.

The SMAC group, in concert with COC, CPC and OTP are finalising this tool (to be made available on 1 May 2020) and will continue to collect information from WHO and other countries to create the best path forward for returning to training.

Despite a number of nations returning to group training this week, in Canada physical distancing measures remain in force and we are thus not able to start group training at this point in time.

Any decisions regarding return to group training would ultimately be in conjunction with provincial / local health authorities, provincial / local government bodies,
your sports associations as well as OTP, CPC and COC.

CSI Pacific - Important Advisory on COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
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Canada's Sport Medicine Advisory Committee (SMAC) consists of medical experts from sport in Canada and is comprised of members of Own The Podium, the Candaian Olympic Committee, the Canadian Paralympic Committee and the COPSI Network (Canadian Sport Institutes & Centres)

This group will be releasing updates regarding the COVID-19 Coronavirus approximately every two days. Please check these emails as they come in for the latest updates and feel free to share with your network.

Further Resources:

Canadian Sport Institute Pacific has also now put up a single page on our website that features all the latest updates, as well as resources relating to sport and COVID-19 that athletes, coaches and our NSO & PSO partners may find useful.  These will be updated regularly here:

Further Questions:

Further information about COVID-19 may be obtained from your NSO Chief Medical Officer or Team Physician, or the Chief Medical Officers of the Sport Medicine Advisory Committee.