Could you say your full name and your position, your degree?

My name is Ron Maughan, I am PhD in exercise physiology & I am based in St Aberdeen University in Scotland.

Welcome to Iran and beautiful city in Isfahan, and the question is that, what is the basis of your presentation here and your participation in the International Congress?

First of all, it is wonderful to have for opportunity to visit Iran & to come once again to Isfahan it is ten years last time I was here so, it is very good to come back again it is also to have the opportunity to participate in this congress on sport nutrition because sport nutrition is a critical important not only for athlete competing at the high level but also for the general population & for the children who want to improve the health.

Why is sports nutrition so important according to specialist and nutritional doctor, why is it important?

Nutrition is important because it can make difference between winner and loser if we could competition structure of sport it setup so the time in individuals & it quit matched. So, the competition tries to match people but, the aim of athletes it’s to be the opposition, the aim of the team it is to be the opposition every week, so we could what they to improve their performance they train to improve their performances they have psychological & technical strategies & nutrition is one of the things that can make the difference between winner & loser.

These days athletes ,they prioritize sport over nutrition and they say that sports is more important and they should actually sport try to do all best to win and nutrition is just supplement to sport, what do think about that?

But what I say to athletes at home.it makes no sense to train if you do not take the nutrition seriously, because nutrition can make that difference .if you do not want to win do not take nutrition seriously but do not train idol.

If you want to give percentage to nutrition in the general accomplishment often athlete what percentage you give to nutrition?

I give it maybe one percent, but the difference between winner and loser is sometimes 0/0001 percent so, compared to genetics, compared to training it is small, but at a bit sport to difference between first & last ,not first in second ,first in last and in big final is often less than one percent.

What is your idea about sports supplement there are a lot of athletes that use supplement and after sometimes when they quit sports and their athletic performances they have a lot of side effects they are some complications so, what is your idea in this field?

Many supplements have no side effects no complications but they have no effect ideal so, the athletes need to consider carefully by the way of supplements is useful and by the way the caver is risk to health and used to performance, the wasting that can be happen to an athlete is be failed drug test in sport because their label are cheat. Some supplement works close athletes to fail drug test so, they must be very cautious in every supplements that they use.

What is the actually policy of IOC the International Olympic Committee about supplementations and nutrition in sports?

The IOC recognizes  the nutrition is very important to sport until then recently the policy & supplement use from the IOC medical commission voted athlete should not use the accredited supplement .however, about 4 month age in May, we had small meeting at the IOC office and we spend 3 days discussing supplements. It was a great that a few supplements that may have some athletes in some situations if they take properly under supervision generally athletes from using supplements, but some supplements may help where those specific needs.

Is there any academic interaction between the IOC and the some scientific institutes and universities? And how is the interaction between IOC & Scientific committees?

There is no good interaction, the IOC has a medical commission which is responsibility all of the matters the medical commission has in addition to the members of the commission and expert good prescience and medicine those experts most work in universities of research institutes and teaching institutes although some work only in sport.so, those expert have strong contact with the academic community of in the world & they provide that bridge between the IOC & the academic community.

Recently IOC has actually started some kind of protest against doping & against illegally drugs so, is not it some kind of contrast that IOC at the same time is trying to encourage using supplement & on the other hand discouraging some other supplements?

No, I think the quiet correct picture. The responsibility Anti-doping is on Anti – doping agency not with the  Anti-doping IOC .The IOC has past responsibility to the world Anti-Doping Agency the IOC recognizes the doping is a big problem & should be eliminated from sport. However, they also recognize that some supplements are avertible in judgment that not prohibited on the valid regulation they may benefit some athletes & they would not carry any harm, if the IOC does not recognizes that athletes may benefits from supplements they athletes ignore the IOC ,they have to take the pragmatic approach.