DownloadGlossary
Adverse analytical finding
A report from a laboratory or other approved testing entity that identifies in a specimen the presence of a prohibited substance or its metabolites or markers (including elevated quantities of endogenous substances) or evidence of the use of a prohibited method.
Anti-doping organisation
An organisation responsible for adopting the rules to implement or enforce any part of the doping control process. Examples include the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, the World Anti-Doping Agency, international federations, national anti-doping organisations and other major event organisations that conduct testing at their events.
Athlete
See the National Anti-Doping scheme definition for the legal definition. For the purposes of doping control, an athlete is a person participating in sport at international level or national level or at a lower level if designated by a national anti-doping organisation. For the purposes of anti-doping information and education, an athlete is a person participating in sport under the authority of any organisation that has signed or accepts the Code, or the government.
Athlete support personnel
Including, but not limited to, any coach, trainer, manager, agent, team staff, official, medical or paramedical personnel, working with or treating athletes in or preparing for sports competition.
Chaperone
A casual staff member representing ASADA under the direction of the Doping Control Officer, responsible for notifying athletes of their selection for doping control, keeping the athlete in sight
at all times from notification until the completion of the sample collection process. The chaperone will be the sole party in witnessing the provision of the sample leaving the athlete’s body into a collection vessel.
Code (the)
‘The Code’ is the short form of the World Anti-Doping Code.
Doping control
The process that includes test distribution planning, sample collection and handling, laboratory analysis, results management, hearings and appeals.
Doping Control Officer
An ASADA staff member who is responsible for the entire doping control session. They undertake all paperwork during the session, manage and direct the chaperones, distribute athlete allocations and ensure the doping control session is completed in line with policies and procedures.
In-competition test
Unless provided for otherwise in the rules of an international federation or other anti-doping organisation, an in-competition test is a test where an athlete is selected for testing in connection with a specific competition.
Marker
A compound, group of compounds or biological parameters that indicate the use of a prohibited substance or prohibited method.
Metabolite
Any substance produced by a biotransformation process.
Minor
A person who has not reached the age of majority as established by the applicable laws of his or her country of residence.
National anti-doping organisation
The entity (or entities) designated by each country as possessing the primary authority and responsibility to adopt and implement anti-doping rules, direct the collection of samples, the management of test results, and the conduct of hearings, all at the national level. If this designation has not been made by the competent public authority(ies), the entity shall be the country’s national Olympic committee or its designee. ASADA is Australia’s national anti-doping organisation.
No-advance-notice test
A doping control that takes place with no advance warning to the athlete.
Out-of-competition test
Any doping control that is not undertaken during a competition.
Prohibited List
The list identifying the prohibited substances and prohibited methods.
Prohibited method
Any method so described on the Prohibited List.
Prohibited substance
Any substance so described on the Prohibited List.
Registered Testing Pool
The pool of athletes who must provide daily whereabouts information to ASADA.
Register of Findings
A register established under the ASADA Act, and maintained by ASADA under the National Anti-Doping scheme, on which ASADA enters the relevant details and its findings.
Sample/specimen
Any biological material collected for the purposes of doping control.
Target testing
Selection of athletes for testing where specific athletes or groups of athletes are selected on a non-random basis for testing at a specified time.
Testing
The parts of the doping control process involving test distribution planning, sample collection, sample handling, and sample transport to the laboratory.
Trafficking
To traffic is to sell, give, administer, transport, send, deliver or distribute a prohibited substance or prohibited method to an athlete either directly or through one or more third parties, but excluding the sale or distribution (by medical personnel or by persons other than an athlete’s support personnel) of a prohibited substance for genuine and legal therapeutic purposes.
World Anti-Doping Code
The Code adopted by the Foundation Board of the World Anti-Doping Agency on 5 March 2003 at Copenhagen, as amended from time to time. This document is internationally recognised as the basis for doping control. The Code communicates to stakeholders a standard global response to doping in sport. A new, revised Code was implemented on 1 January 2009.