Overview of the Irish Anti-Doping Programme Rachel Maguire

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

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

Testing

In/Out of Competition Testing

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Anti-Doping Rule Violations

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.

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

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.

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

Testing Procedures https://vimeo.com/148596343

Minors – U18

Declaration of Medications/ Supplements used in past 14 days

The WADA Prohibited List

Recreational Drugs (including Cannabis) are on the Prohibited List

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.

Republic of Ireland www.eirpharm.com

ISC Medication Checker App Links to www.eirpharm.com

Northern Ireland, USA, UK www.globaldro.com

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

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

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

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

Does Doping Just affect High Performance Sport?

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.

Supplements

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

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.

Methylhexaneamine Commonly found in Supplements Responsible for 283 positive tests in 2011 and 169 in 2013 worldwide (WADA figures) Certain products containing methylhexanamine have been taken off the shelves

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

What's the consequence?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Questions?

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Contact Rachel Maguire 01-8608805 rmaguire@sportireland.ie