ANTI-DOPING

The use of doping substances or doping methods to enhance performance is fundamentally wrong and is detrimental to the overall spirit of sport. Drug misuse can be harmful to an athlete’s health and to other athletes competing in the sport. It severely damages the integrity, image and value of sport, whether or not the motivation to use drugs is to improve performance. To achieve integrity and fairness in sport, a commitment to clean sport is critical.

The principle of strict liability is applied in situations where urine/blood samples collected from an athlete have produced adverse analytical results.

It means that each athlete is strictly liable for the substances found in his or her bodily specimen, and that an anti-doping rule violation occurs whenever a prohibited substance (or its metabolites or markers) is found in bodily specimen, whether or not the athlete intentionally or unintentionally used a prohibited substance or was negligent or otherwise at fault.

Questions and Answers on Strict Liability in Anti-Doping can be found on WADA’s website

An Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) is when an Athlete or Athlete Support Person commits a doping offence and subsequently there are consequences or sanctions to that person.

WADA defines the following ten Anti-Doping Rule Violations:

1. Presence of a prohibited substance or its metabolites or markers in an athlete’s sample
2. Use or attempted use by an athlete of a prohibited substance or a prohibited method
3. Evading, refusing or failing to submit to sample collection
4. Whereabouts failures (any combination of three missed tests and/or filing failures within a 12-month period by an athlete)
5. Tampering or attempted tampering with any part of doping control
6. Possession of a prohibited substance or a prohibited method
7. Trafficking or attempted trafficking in any prohibited substance or prohibited method
8. Administration or attempted administration to any athlete in-competition of any prohibited substance or prohibited method or administration or attempted administration to any athlete out-of-competition of any prohibited substance or any prohibited method that is prohibited out-of-competition.
9. Complicity (assisting, encouraging, aiding, abetting, conspiring, covering up or any other type of intentional complicity involving an Anti-Doping Rule Violation)
10. Prohibited Association

IPSC Athtletes and the Athlete’s Support Personnel must abide by the WADA Code in terms of:

• Be knowledgeable of and comply with these Anti-Doping Rules.
• Be available for sample collection at all times.
• Take responsibility, in the context of anti-doping, for what they ingest and Use.
• Inform medical personnel of they obligation not to Use Prohibited Substances and Prohibited Methods and to take responsibility to make sure that any medical treatment received does not violate these Anti-Doping Rules.
• Disclose to IPSC and their National Anti-Doping Organization any decision by a non-Signatory finding that the Athlete committed an anti-doping rule violation within the previous ten (10) years.
• Cooperate with Anti-Doping Organizations investigating anti-doping rule violations.
• Cooperate in full with Anti-Doping Organizations investigating anti-doping rule violations failure to do so may result in a charge of misconduct under IPSC’s disciplinary rules.
• Disclose the identity of their Athlete Support Personnel upon request by IPSC or a Member Association, or any other Anti-Doping Organization with authority over the Athlete.
• Do not engage in Offensive conduct towards a Doping Control official or other Person involved in Doping Control by an Athlete, if this does not otherwise constitute Tampering, it may result in a charge of misconduct under IPSC’s disciplinary rules.