ASADA

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• ASADAS New Athlete Whereabouts Program

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Content

• Context
• ASADAs whereabouts requirements
• Who has to provide Athlete Whereabouts
  Information
• Methods for submitting whereabouts information
• Consequences for violations of ASADAs AW
  requirements
• Implementation dates
• Online system demonstration.

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Context

• Under the WADC, an athlete in ASADAs Registered
  Testing Pool is required to provide accurate
  whereabouts information (in accordance with
  ASADAs requirements) to enable the athlete to be
  located for NAN OOC testing.
• The Code also introduced consequences for
  athletes who fail to comply with whereabouts
  requirements.
• Under the Code, an athlete may incur an ADRV for
  violating whereabouts requirements by failing to
  provide required information and/or missed tests

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ASADAs Roles

• Determine the criteria for inclusion in ASADAs
  RTP
• Set ASADAs Athlete Whereabouts requirements
• Develop policies and procedures to determine when
  an athlete has violated ASADAs Athlete
  Whereabouts requirements (FTPI, Missed Test
  policies)
• Establish systems and procedures to collect,
  monitor and manage Athlete Whereabouts
  Information.

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Policy development

• Effective
• Adequate whereabouts information available to
  DCOs for NAN OOC testing.
• Reasonable to athletes
• Minimise loopholes for doping athletes
• Accommodate sport specificity
• Practical.

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Balancing act
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Athlete Whereabouts Requirements

• Athletes are required to nominate one location
  and time period per day where they will be
  available for sample collection.
• Required time period- one hour.
• Required to be available for the complete hour as
  DCO may arrive at the location any time during
  that hour.
• Athletes are required to submit this information
  on a quarterly basis and update the information
  as required to maintain its accuracy.

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How to submit AW Information

• Quarterly Athlete Whereabouts Forms
• Athlete Whereabouts Online System
• Mail or Fax (must be submitted directly to ASADA
  using only the ASADA AW Form).
• Updates
• As above
• ASADA Hotline

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Who has to submit AW information

• ASADAs Athlete Whereabouts requirements apply to
  athletes in ASADAs national Registered Testing
  Pool (RTP).
• Inclusion in the RTP is based on a number of
  factors related to the athlete, their sport,
  level of competition and ASADAs Doping Control
  Program.
• ASADA regularly reviews the RTP and athletes are
  removed or added as appropriate.
• ASADAs RTP will be smaller than the current RTP.

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Domestic Testing Pool (DTP)

• ASADA will also maintain a Domestic Testing Pool.
• The DTP includes elite athletes who are not in
  the RTP.
• ASADA will maintain personal and contact details
  for athletes in the DTP for doping control and
  communication purposes e.g. informing athletes
  they have been moved into the RTP.
• NSOs will be required to keep ASADA up to date
  with athletes personal and contact details.

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Information ASADA requires from NSO

• Full name
• Date of Birth
• Gender
• Nationality
• Disabilities (if applicable)
• Primary residential address
• Primary mailing Address
• Contact phone numbers
• Email address (if available)
• Coaches name.

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Level of athlete in RTP and DTP

• As a guideline, RTP and DTP combined will include
  athletes in national senior teams in Olympic and
  Paralympic sports and other ASC funded
  sports/programs that receive regular high
  performance funding.

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Rationale for two testing pools

• ASADA works on the principle of only requesting
  the Athlete Whereabouts Information that is
  necessary for ASADA to implement its doping
  control program.
• ASADAs OOC doping control program is not a one
  size fits all therefore ASADA does not require
  individual AWI from all athletes to implement its
  doping control program.
• ASADA reminds athletes that any athlete who meets
  the definition of Athlete under the ASADA Act
  2006 may be subject to both In and OOC testing
  regardless of whether they are required to
  provide AWI to ASADA.

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Consequences for violation of whereabouts
requirements

• An athlete can violate ASADAs whereabouts
  requirements in two ways
• Failing to comply with request to inform ASADA of
  his or her location (also known as Failure to
  Provide Information)
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• Failing to be located for a sample after being
  requested to provide his or her location (also
  referred to as a Missed Test whereabouts
  offence).

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ADRV

• Three (3) FTPI and/or Missed Tests in a rolling
  18 month period will lead to
• ASADA making a determination that an ADRV has
  occurred
• the athletes name and details of the relevant
  ADRV will be entered onto ASADAs Register of
  Findings and
• the athletes NSO will be informed.
• Sanctions range from a minimum of 3 months to two
  years.

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Failure to Provide Information

• Procedural Guidelines
• ASADA requires an athlete to submit quarterly AWI
  by a due date. Athletes will incur a FTPI
  whereabouts offence if they fail to submit the
  information by the due date (and subsequent due
  dates).
• ASADA provides the opportunity for athletes to
  submit Partial Alternative locations when
  submitting quarterly forms. If a Partial
  Alternative location is not updated within 48
  hours of the relevant date, an athlete will incur
  a FTPI whereabouts offence.
• Following a whereabouts offence notification, the
  athlete will have the opportunity to provide an
  explanation for why they did not submit the
  necessary information by the due date or within
  the required timeframe.

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Missed Test

• Procedural Guidelines
• ASADA DCO will take reasonable steps to locate an
  athlete at the location and time the athlete
  nominated to be available for sample collection.
• If the athlete cannot be located, the DCO may
  record a Missed Test.
• Prior to doing so, the DCO will make a curtesy
  call using the phone contact details provided by
  the athlete (including an alternate contact).
• If athlete is in immediate vicinity, athlete
  provided the opportunity to proceed to their
  nominated location within timeframe set by DCO.
• If the athlete proceeds to the location within
  the timeframe, sample collection will proceed and
  no Missed test will be recorded.

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Missed Test

• Procedural Guidelines
• A Missed Test will be reported by the DCO in the
  following circumstances
• the DCO is unable to make contact with the
  athlete and has taken reasonable steps to locate
  the athlete or
• the athlete is not in the immediate vicinity or
• The athlete is unable to proceed to their
  nominated location within the timeframe specified
  by the DCO or
• the athlete does not arrive at their nominated
  location within the required timeframe.

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Proposed Implementation Timeframes

• Letters and AW Information packs sent to athletes
  (Reg. post) 15/12/06
• Letters and AW Information packs sent to NSOs
  15/12/06
• First due date for quarterly submission 15/3/07
• Whereabouts policies effective from 15/3/07

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Next steps

• Review of individual NSO policies
• Work with NSOs to resolve any inconsistencies
  between NSO policy and ASADAs whereabouts
  requirements and policies
• Individual liaison with IFs in effort to
  streamline requirements for athletes in both IF
  and NADO pools.

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Next Steps