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Doping control
The whole process that includes test distribution planning, sample collection and handling, laboratory analysis, results management, hearings and appeals.
Doping Control Official
An official who has been trained and authorised by the anti-doping organisation with delegated responsibility for the on-site management of a sample collection session.
In-competition
Unless provided otherwise in the rules of an international federation or other anti-doping organisation, in-competition sample collection is when an athlete is selected for doping control in connection with a specific competition.
List of international incidences
A list on which ASADA enters the name of Australian athletes competing in internationally sanctioned events or international athletes competing in Australia, where an Anti-Doping Rule Violation has occurred.
National Anti-Doping Organisation
The entity (or entities) designated by each country as possessing the primary responsibility to adopt and implement anti-doping rules, a doping control program, management of sample collection results, and the conduct of hearings.
No-advance-notice test
Sample collection that takes place without the athlete having any advance notice. The athlete is continuously chaperoned from the moment of notification through to sample provision.
Out-of-competition
Any sample that is not collected in-competition.
Register of Findings
A register on which ASADA enters the name of an Australian competitor when an Anti-Doping Rule Violation has occurred.
Registered Testing Pool
A group of elite athletes established separately by an international federation or anti-doping organisation. These athletes are subject to in-competition and out-of-competition sample collection as part of a doping control program run by that international federation or by anti-doping organisations.
World Anti-Doping Code
A document developed by the World Anti-Doping Agency that is internationally recognised as the basis for doping control. The Code communicates to stakeholders a standard global response to doping in sport.