Anti-doping is a fundamental aspect of sport that every skyrunner should understand. It’s easy to close an eye, but it’s also easy to be found positive, without knowing why.

In skyrunning, the stakes aren’t as high as in some trail running events or other sports, so the motivation would not be just for the financial rewards. Why would a top athlete, who is probably going to win anyway, dope? It’s extremely unlikely but on several occasions it has happened. In skyrunning, to date, these cases have always been linked to the use of therapeutic substances – but without the required exemption.