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Runporto
organizes a
few dozen
walking and
races in the
northern
region of the
country. It has
already put on
the road several hundred
thousand people to do physical
exercise, thus being one of the
main agents for the promotion
of health also with the motiva-
tion for the practice of physical
exercise. The EDP Porto Marathon,
which is held in November, is its
main event. It’s also the Marathon
of Portugal, which is the only race
approved for qualifying times for
European for the World Champi-
onships and also for the Olympic
Games. The high level of organiza-
tion and participation has made
the International Association of
Athletics Federations (IAAF) grant
the degree of Bronze Label Road
Race. The 15 th edition of the EDP
Marathon of Porto (4/11/2018)
belongs now to the official
calendar of IAAF, a distinction
that puts it as one of the best
races on the world circuit of mara-
thons. The first edition took place
in 2004 and 317 athletes partici-
pated in the classic distance of
42,195 meters, but in the edition
of 2017 had the participation of
more than 6,000 athletes from 69
countries (27% were foreign
athletes), making it the largest
marathon in Portugal. In the three
types of participation in the event
(Marathon, Family Race and Fun
Race) there was more than 15000
people. Congratulations to
Runporto and its general director,
Mr. Jorge Teixeira, because of the
prestige given to Portugal and the
promotion of the health that he
provides to the Portuguese people.
A Spanish Federation of Sports
Medicine published on 18 July a
press release, in which is expressed
the concern about the medical
examinations performed by com-
panies with “clearly commercial
purposes”. It was considered well-
timed the production of some
considerations, that were supported
in the consensus document Recog-
nitions Physicians for the Fitness
Sports (See full text on the website
of the magazine: www.revdespor-
tiva.pt) of Spanish Federation of
Medicine of Sport (SEMED-FEMEDE),
presented during the VII National
Conference of Medicine of Sport,
held in Zaragoza, November 2017. In
that note it states that the medical
recognition for sports practice is a
fundamental tool for the health of
the sport, that the “qualification,
professionalism, experience and
responsibility should be the only
requirements to ensure the medical
attention received by the athlete”,
that any decision should be made
with guarantees of physical fitness
and that the examination should be
carried out by doctors, preferably
with Knowledge to perform it, that
is, with training on sports medicine.
It is, without a doubt, an example
that could also follow here in Portu-
gal. See comment in the section of
FMUP (Dr. José Ramos).
It is an
unprec-
edented
work that
was lack-
ing on the
Portuguese
medical
literature in
the field of
sports medi-
cine, but
also of importance for other medical
specialties. It was with great com-
mitment and persistence that Drs.
José Carlos Carneiro and Manuel
Vaz, specialists on pulmonology and
with dedication to sports medicine,
built and coordinated the production
of this work, with the contribution
of more and three dozen doctors
over nearly 30 chapters. This book
addresses physiology, anatomy,
functional and stress tests, several
diseases, the exercise prescription,
as well as other actual themes, like
doping and sleep, the psychology
and the special populations. This
book came out because the authors
recognize that “the respiratory
pathology on athletes is a cause of
great concern of the doctors that
take care of them”, so it is “an indis-
pensable work for clubs and sports
institutions and for the education of
the clinicians”. The “writing is acces-
sible and didactic”, being another
reason for its reading. The preface is
by Prof. Doctor João Paulo Almeida,
the edition is of the publisher Lidel,
has the support of BIAL and the ben-
efits will be in favor of SPMD.
This thematic week was launched
on April 19, 2002, in Brussels, by
the Commissioner for the Environ-
ment, and it came out following the
European day without cars, which
occurred in 2000 and 2001. This
year›s edition has the slogan Mix
and Move! The theme for 2018 is
the Multimodality. The Portuguese
Environment Agency coordinates in
PORTUGAL this European proposal
and it states in its website that “the
multimodality takes the specific
advantages of transport mean as
an added value and, in combina-
tion with each other, can offer more
efficient transport solutions”. Once
a year people have opportunity to
engage in events dedicated to sus-
tainable mobility and beneficial to
the health of cities. To have alterna-
tives in relation to the private car is
the core of this initiative, so to go to
the job by bike is a recommended
option and to sediment in the
behaviors of the people. In the site
http://www.mobilityweek.eu/ it can
be added the programmed activities.
Now, Portugal is the fourth country
with more registered counties (40),
and the list is led by Spain (300), fol-
lowed by Hungary (239) and Austria
(202). Interestingly, Switzerland (2),
UK (2), Holland (1) and Belgium (1)
are at the bottom of this world list.
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