Olympic Champion Swimmer Ian Thorpe Confirmed to Speak Live at December's Doha GOALS Forum

Olympic Champion Swimmer Ian Thorpe Confirmed to Speak Live at December's Doha GOALS Forum PR Newswire LONDON, October 21, 2012 LONDON, October 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 'Thorpedo' will join a strong panel of industry leaders and sporting champions to debate whether we are doing enough to protect athletes Five-time Olympic gold medallist Ian Thorpe will join a panel of top sportsmen and women at the Doha GOALS Forum on December 10-12 to discuss whether federations and organisations are doing enough to protect athletes. http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120731/552194 http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121021/568287 The panel, which will discuss how young athletes can be nurtured to play a role in their own careers through media training and business awareness, will also address how to help retired sportsmen retrain in new careers. Thorpe will be joined by: leading sports agent Phil de Picciotto; Travis Tygart, president of the US Anti Doping Agency; and Jonathan Edwards, world record holder in the triple jump and a board member for the London 2012 organising committee. Doha GOALS - Gathering of All Leaders In Sport - is a new initiative designed as a "Call to Action" for the role that sport plays as a driver for social and economic change. It was created under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, and was launched during the Olympics.