About Anti-Doping - Clean Sport
Background: Code Article 18.2 makes it mandatory for ADO education programs to include a number of awareness, information and values-based education components. The minimum requirement is for this material to be available on the ADO’s website.
Requirements: The Code and the International Standard for Education (ISE Article 5.2) outline the topics that must be included in an ADO’s education program and, at minimum, on the ADO’s website. This includes:
- Principles and values associated with clean sport
- Athletes’, athlete support personnel’s and other groups’ rights and responsibilities under the Code
- The principle of Strict Liability
- Consequences of doping, for example, physical and mental health, social and economic effects, and sanctions
- Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs)
- Substances and methods on the Prohibited List
- Risks of supplement use
- Use of medications and Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs)
- Testing procedures, including urine, blood and the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP)
- Requirements of the Registered Testing Pool (RTP), including whereabouts and the use of ADAMS
- Coming forward to share concerns about doping
How to: The material included across this document will help your ADO fulfill this requirement. The text included below could be used in an introductory section that your ADO could call “About Anti-Doping/Clean Sport” and covers all of the topics listed above that are bolded. The other topics deserve their own section and are addressed further in the document.
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