This month the Australian Institute of Sport's (AIS) European Training Centre (ETC) hosted some of the world's leading sporting medical minds with the International National Olympic Committee (INOC) Chief Medical Officers (CMO) Group gathering in Gavirate, Italy.
Starting as an informal online gathering of like-minded national CMOs during the peak of the pandemic, the group continued to meet in the lead-up to the Tokyo and Beijing Games to discuss the complex medical issues relating to all Olympic and Paralympic events.
The key objectives of this group include facilitating information sharing and cross-pollination of new ideas, reducing duplication of effort in formulating medical strategies, strengthening networks for accessing care for athletes travelling internationally and providing peer-to-peer support for CMOs from multiple nations.
For the first face-to-face meeting, the group chose the ETC in Gavirate, with more than a dozen countries represented alongside the CMO for the Paris 2024 Organising Committee (OCOG) and a medical representative from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
