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Sport: Anti-doping

Answer

There are testing arrangements in place to cover athletes in receipt of public funding when training abroad. UK Sport agrees annually with sport’s national governing bodies a pool of publicly funded athletes who will be considered for out-of-competition testing. To facilitate the collection of samples under the out-of-competition testing programme, athletes are required to provide UK Sport with their whereabouts, which includes their overseas training commitments. If an athlete is subsequently selected to provide a sample, UK Sport either sends one of its own doping control officers, or if one exists, arranges with the national anti-doping organisation operating in that country to collect a sample from the athlete. In addition, UK Sport as part of the International Anti-Doping Agreement, has testing arrangements in place with all signatories to the agreement, which includes New Zealand, Canada, Norway and Australia. Provision is made for signatories to conduct a specified number of doping tests on British athletes training in their country. The UK reciprocates this arrangement with the signatories. With the code in mind, the policy is publicly to report the disciplinary outcome no later than 20 days after the final determination. UK Sport publishes recent findings in the Drug Results Database, which is made available to the public through its website. Furthermore, UK Sport publishes quarterly updates of the results from the drug-testing programme.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

4825; 680 c154WA

Session

2005-06

Related items

Sport: Anti-doping
Wednesday, 8 March 2006
Written questions
House of Lords

Subjects

Drugs Misuse Reciprocal arrangements Training Sports competitors Testing

Link

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