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Anti-Doping UpdateWADA Code 2015
Significant Changes Enforced January 1 2015
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CORE INFLUENCERS
BeginnerPerformance development
Gifted and talented
PerformanceHigh
performanceElite
Influencers
Parents
Peers
Coaches
Health professionals
Teachers
Role models
Athlete stages
Wider societal influences
UKAD/NGBs
Health professionals
Peers
TeachersRolemodelsParents
UKAD/NGBs
Coaches
Source: UK Anti-Doping
Athletes
Presence of prohibited substance, its metabolites or markers
Use or attempted use of prohibited substance or method
Possession of a prohibited substance
Refusing or evading a test
Whereabouts violation
Athletes &Support Personnel
Tampering or attempting to tamper with the testing process
Trafficking or attempted trafficking of a prohibited substance
Administration or attempted administration of a prohibited
substance
Complicity
Prohibited association
Anti- Doping Rule Violations
• Complicity
Assisting, encouraging, aiding, abetting, conspiring, covering up Relates to the role support personnel can play in deliberate doping
situations.
• Prohibited Association
ADRV for athletes or others associating with ‘athlete support person’that have been banned or criminally convicted for providing PEDseg: including training, receiving nutritional or medical advice or therapy.
New Anti-Doping Rule Violations
Anti- Doping Rule Violations
• Those engaged in intentional doping • Ineligible for a period of four years
• Where athlete can establish no significant fault for an adverse analytical finding involving a contaminated product• Ineligibility period range: minimum-reprimand
to maximum-two years.
Doping Bans Doubled
Doping Bans Increase From 2 to 4 Years
• Greater scope for the retrospective analysis of stored samples as new technologies to identify prohibited substances are developed
• Stored samples will be subject to further analysis
Sample Storage Period
Increase From 8 to 10 Years
• Accumulation of 3 filing failures or missed tests being reduced from consideration over 18-month period to 12-month period
• Therefore our athletes need to be organised and vigilant in updating their personal Whereabouts information if in Registered Testing Pool
Whereabouts Changes
Whereabouts Violations
• ASADA able to obtain, assess & process anti-doping intelligence from other available sources
• Government organisations sharing information
• Forms a basis for investigation into possible doping violation
Intelligence and Investigations
Increased Focus on Intelligence & Investigations
• Athletes associating in a professional or sporting capacity with any criminally convicted support personnel may result in investigation leading to an ADRV
Increase in Investigation of Support Personnel
Support Personnel
• Revised WADA Code has a strong emphasis on educational programmes focusing on prevention
• National Federations asked to conduct anti-doping education in coordination with their National Anti-Doping Organisation
Education
Education
June 2014 • ASADA delivery Ethical Decision Making Course
December 2014 • Ethical Decision Making Drugs in Sport Program• Roll out of training- State Development Officers
In 2015 • Ethical Decision Making Drugs in Sport Program • Roll out to junior athletes in:
• State teams & squads • National teams & squads
Education
Action by Athletics Australia
• Athletes to adopt a ‘food first’ approach to nutrition
• Use of supplements on advice from accredited Sports Physicians and Doctors, or Sports Dieticians
• Athletics Australia Supplements in Sports Policy guidelines
• Athletes’ use of supplements• Athletics Australia Supplement Use Application Form• Approval by Dr. Adam Castricum, AA CMO
Supplements
Action by Athletics Australia
For Anti-Doping Information• ASADA www.asada.gov.au • WADA www.wada-ama.org • IAAF www.iaaf.org
Lynda Gusbeth, Integrity Unit Education Officerlynda.gusbeth@athletics.org.au
Contact
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