1. Overview of the Irish Anti-Doping Programme
Rachel Maguire

2. Overview General Information Anti-Doping Rule Violations
What happens in a urine and blood test
The Prohibited List
Image enhancing
Supplement Use

3. What is Anti-doping?
Anti-doping is the bid to eliminate doping from sport and the fight to protect athletes’ rights to compete in clean sport.
Testing
Intelligence & investigations
Prevention, Education & awareness

4. Testing

5. In/Out of Competition Testing

6. Scenario 1
An athlete takes a cold medicine given to her by her father before a race
The athlete is selected for testing and has a positive test for pseudoephedrine
Who is responsible?
Group discussion about who is responsible, the athlete is solely responsible

7. Scenario 2
A coach has started giving his athletes a supplement at the end of training.
He mixes the powder and hands each athlete a shake
The coach also sells this supplement as a side business
Three of the athletes test positive for an anabolic steroid at an OOC squad test
Who?
What?
Discussion around strict liability, what anti-doping violations are potentially broken in this scenario. Could the coach be guilty of an ADRV

8. Is it fair that an athlete can be banned from sport for taking a prohibited substance by mistake?

9. Your Body. Your Responsibility.
Strict Liability
Your Body. Your Responsibility.
The principle of Strict Liability states that an athlete is wholly responsible for any prohibited substance found in their system, regardless of how it got there and regardless of whether they intended to cheat or not. Ignorance is no excuse.

10. What is the first word that pops into your head
What is the first word that pops into your head. Discuss no matter what the sporting achievements the athlete will be remembered for doping

11. Consequences of not adhering to Anti-Doping Procedures
Suspension from sport – 4 years to life Other Consequences – Time, Media etc
The above are possible consequences of Disciplinary proceedings for doping violations.

12. Anti-Doping Rule Violations

13. Doping Violations
Presence of a Prohibited Substance in an Athlete’s Sample
 Use or Attempted Use by an Athlete of a Prohibited Substance or a Prohibited Method
 Refusing or failing to do a drug test after notification
 Committing Three Whereabouts Failures (Filing Failures or Missed Tests) in 12 months
These are Doping Violations for which an athlete can be sanctioned as outlined in the WADA Code – highlight for e.g. Its not just a substance being found in your urine or blood sample, but possession of prohibited substances.

14. Doping Violations cont....
5. Tampering
6. Possession of Prohibited Substances and/or Prohibited Methods
7. Trafficking in any Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method
8. Administration to an Athlete of any Prohibited Method or Prohibited Substance; assisting, encouraging, aiding, abetting, covering up

15. Two New Anti-Doping Violations
9. Complicity - Involvement in an ADRV committed by another person, such as helping to cover up that ADRV or avoid detection, will be sanctioned in the same way as that violation.
10. Prohibited Association -Associating with a person such as a coach, doctor or physio who has been found guilty of an ADRV or equivalent offence to a doping violation will be sanctioned with a ban of up to 2 years.

16. How many ADRV’s relate to the coach
6 of the ADRVs relate to the coach

17. Testing Procedures

18. Minors – U18

19. Declaration of Medications/ Supplements used in past 14 days

20. The WADA Prohibited List

21. Recreational Drugs (including Cannabis) are on the Prohibited List

22. The Simple Advice…
Your players must check all their prescribed and over- the-counter medications
Check what resources your National Anti-Doping Organisation (NADOs) and your Triathlon Federation have to assist you in checking your medications.
Contact details for NADOs are in your handout.

23. Republic of Ireland

24. ISC Medication Checker App
Links to

25. Northern Ireland, USA, UK

26. The Same?
Republic of Ireland
America
PROHIBITED!!!!!!

27. Travelling Abroad…advice to players
Bring a double supply from home of any prescribed medications or over-the-counter medications you may need.
If you need to purchase a medication overseas – you need to check if it is permitted in the country where it is purchased

28. Pseudoephedrine
Talk to a pharmacist about the use of alternative permitted medications for therapeutic use during in-competition periods

29. TUE Advice
If an athlete needs to take a prohibited medication for a medical condition the he/she will require a therapeutic use exemption.
The player’s PRESCRIBING doctor needs to sign the form, and give the MEDICAL FILE details

30. Does Doping Just affect High Performance Sport?

31. Motivation for PIED use
Increase muscle mass 91%
Increase strength 75.3%
To look good 62.9%
Increase confidence 51.7%
38% started using oral steroids and then progressed to injecting.

32. Supplements

33. Supplements Not classified as medicines Cannot be checked
Little regulation of the industry
Ingredients left off the label
Ingredients written in various ways
Cross-contamination due to human error

34. Research
The Anti-Doping Authority in the Netherlands conducted a study in 2015
Presence of prohibited substances in high risk sports supplements available from Dutch web shops
66 products from 21 different brands were submitted for analysis
38% of the supplements tested positive for prohibited substances.

35. Methylhexaneamine Commonly found in Supplements
Responsible for 283 positive tests in and 169 in 2013 worldwide (WADA figures)
Certain products containing methylhexanamine have been taken off the shelves

36. Also written as........ DMAA (dimethylamylamine) Geranamine Forthane
Floradrene
1,3-dimethylamylamine
4-Methylhexan-2-amine
1,3-dimethylpentylamine
2-amino-4-methylhexane
Pentylamine

37. What's the consequence?

38. Minimise Risk
Remember no guarantee can be given that any supplement is free from banned substances
Assess the need
Assess the risk
Assess the consequences

39. Minimise Risk
Check if the supplement has a product authorisation (PA) number
Seek advice from a professional sports dietician
Supplements that claim to be muscle building or fat burning are more likely to be associated with contamination with anabolic steroids, stimulants and other contaminants

40. Minimise Risk Undertake a thorough internet search
Only use batch tested products
Checking Informed Sport (which is a risk minimisation programme) that the supplement has been batch tested

42. Limitations to informed sport
As part of the informed sport, HFL do not test for all substances on the prohibited list.
Time delay when new substances emerge to when added to the HFL testing programme.
The amount tested is a tiny proportion of the entire batch

43. Contaminated Product
The issue of contaminated products has been acknowledged in the new WADA 2015 code.
If an athlete can establish no significant fault or negligence then the sanction can range from a reprimand to a maximum of 2 years.

44. Research Must search the name of the products and the ingredients
Must take a screen shot of all research conducted and save it in a folder
Back up the saved data to be sure
Check informed sport, search product name and the ingredients.

45. Questions?

46. Anti-Doping Twitter Account
@sportireland
#cleangreensport

47. Contact
Rachel Maguire