The IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport is arguably the highest profile Sports and Exercise Medicine event in the world, and I had been hoping to attend since reading about the previous conference 3 years ago.
The conference had its beginnings in Oslo in 2005 as the 1st World Congress on Sports Injury Prevention, organised by the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre. The 2nd congress took place in Tromso in 2008 and by 2011, the IOC Medical Committee was invited to organise the event. The IOC has staged the 3rd and 4th conferences in Monaco to great success in 2011 and 14.
