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Doping Control
The process including 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
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(ies) 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 hearing. (Update)
No Advance Notice
Sample collection which takes place with No Advance Notice to the athlete and where 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
ASADA enters the name of an Australian competitor onto the Register of Findings when an Anti- Doping Rule Violation has occurred.
Register of Notifiable Events
ASDA entered the name of an Australian competitor onto the Register of Notifiable Events when an Anti-Doping Rule Violation had occurred.
Registered Testing Pool
A Registered Testing Pool refers to 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 that International Federation’s or Anti-Doping Organisations doping control program.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
WADA is an international organisation that promotes, coordinates and monitors, at the international level, the fight against doping in sport.
World Anti-Doping Code (the Code)
The Code is a document developed by WADA that is internationally recognised as the basis for doping control. The Code communicates to stakeholders a standard global response to doping in sport.