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Athletes’ and Athletes’ support personnel rights and responsibilities
Rights and responsibilities of Athletes
Role: To be knowledgeable of and comply with all applicable Anti-Doping policies and rules.
Our tip: Know the Anti-Doping rules and stick to them!
Responsibilities: To be knowledgeable of and comply with all applicable Anti-Doping policies and rules.
This means you must:
- Be available for testing.
- Inform medical personnel of your obligation not to use prohibited substances and prohibited methods and taking responsibility to ensure that any medical treatment does not violate Anti-Doping policies and rules. Check all medication and make sure it does not contain a banned substance before you take it. Ask for help if you are unsure.
- To disclose to your National Anti-Doping Organization (NADO) and FIAS any decision made by an Anti-Doping Organization (ADO) that is not a Code Signatory relating to committing an Anti-Doping rule violation (ADRV) within the previous ten years.
- To take responsibility for what you ingest and use. Do not forget -your body, your responsibility.
- Cooperate with Anti-Doping Organisation (ADOs) investigating any Anti-Doping Rules Violation (ADRVs) when you are asked.
- Disclose an identity of your athlete support personnel (coach, physiotherapist, doctor) to any ADO with authority over you in case of any wrongdoing.
- Take the opportunity to be educated on Anti-Doping matters either through FIAS or your National Anti-Doping Organization.
- Have conversations within your sporting environment on Anti-Doping and encourage regular engagement in clean sport activities and events.
- Familiarise yourself with the universal rights available to athletes within Anti-Doping, which are set out in the WADA Athletes’ Anti-Doping Rights Act.
Rights and responsibilities of Athlete Support Personnel’s and Other Persons
The World Anti-Doping Code states the roles and responsibilities that Athlete Support Personnel (ASP) have in relation to Anti-Doping.
This means you must:
- Know and comply with the Anti-Doping Rules, policies and practices that apply to you as well as those that apply to the athletes you support
- Co-operate with the testing programme for athletes
- Use your influence on athletes positively to foster clean sport values and behaviours
- Tell FIAS and your National SAMBO Federation if you have committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation in the last 10 years
- Co-operate with any doping investigation when asked to do so
- Not use or possess any prohibited substance or prohibited method without a valid and justifiable reason
- Take the opportunity to be educated on Anti-Doping matters either through FIAS or your National Anti-Doping Organization
- Have conversations within your sporting environment on Anti-Doping and encourage regular engagement in clean sport activities and events
- Familiarise yourself with the universal rights available to athletes within Anti-Doping, which are set out in the WADA Athletes’ Anti-Doping Rights Act
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