WHAT IS AN ANTI-DOPING RULES VIOLATION?

"Doping" is what happens when a violation of the anti-doping rules has taken place. The WADA Code and the UWW Anti-Doping Rules list  11 categories of anti-doping rule violations. The typical violation is a positive test, but not all violations are about taking prohibited substances.

Athletes are not the only ones involved in sport who can commit anti-doping rule violations. Some violations can be committed by non-athletes: members of an athlete’s entourage (coaches, medical staff, parents, officials, any other member of an athlete’s entourage) or any other person involved in the sport.

List of anti-doping rule violations:

1. Presence of a prohibited substance, its metabolites or markers in an athlete’s sample.
    
2. Use or attempted use by an athlete of a banned substance or method. This includes Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) cases.
    
3. Evading, refusing or failing to submit to sample collection by an athlete.
    
4. Whereabouts failures by an athlete.
    
5. Tampering or attempted tampering with any part of doping control by an athlete or other person
    
6. Possession of a prohibited substance or method by an athlete or athlete support person
    
7. Trafficking or attempted trafficking of any prohibited substance or method by an athlete or other person
    
8. Administration or attempted administration by an athlete or other person to any athlete of any prohibited substance or method.
    
9. Complicity or attempted complicity by an athlete or other person.
    
10. Prohibited association by an athlete or other person.
     
11. Acts by an athlete or other person to discourage or retaliate against reporting to authorities 

PROHIBITED ASSOCIATION

Athletes (and other persons) must not work with coaches, trainers, physicians or other Athlete Support Personnel who are ineligible on account of an anti-doping rules violation or who have been criminally convicted or professionally disciplined in relation to doping. 

Athletes should be aware that they are also prohibited from associating with any Athlete who is currently serving a period of ineligibility, and who has, while ineligible, acted as an Athlete Support Person.

There are various types of prohibited association, for example (not exhaustive) :

• obtaining training, strategy, technique, nutrition or medical advice;
• obtaining therapy, treatment or prescriptions;
• providing any bodily products for analysis;
• allowing the Athlete Support Person to serve as an agent or representative.

Please click here for WADAs Prohibited Association List.

SANCTIONS FOR ANTI-DOPING RULES VIOLATIONS

• List of Antidoping Rules Violations

For more details click here.