DOPING CONTROL

Athletes who are part of the Registered Testing Pool (RTP) need to let us know where they are going to be, at specific times, so we can perform no-advance notice testing.

Registered Testing Pool athletes are required to provide their whereabouts information on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Administration and Management System (ADAMS): regularly scheduled whereabouts filings, filled out online, that are due the last day of each quarter in preparation for the next. As a result, there are four deadlines for whereabouts filings:

Athletes must submit whereabouts filing information whenever regularly scheduled plans change.

Attention! All whereabouts failures will be shared and combined with the athlete’s international federation (IF), WADA, AMADA and will be part of a combined whereabouts failure record

Attention! Any combination of three whereabouts failures (filing failures and/or missed tests), declared by AMADA, WADA or an IF, within an 12 month period = Anti-Doping Rule Violation

Criteria for inclusion in AMADA RTP.

According to the International Standard for Testing and Investigations, athletes who included in the Registered Testing Pool (RTP) of the Azerbaijan National Anti-Doping Agency (AMADA) and submitted whereabouts information for the 1st quarter of 2021 are selected according to the following criteria. The list of Athletes included in RTP will be updated throughout the year.

1. Athletes who are part of national teams in major Events or other priority sports;
2. Athletes who train independently but perform at major Events and may be selected for such Events;
3. Athletes in receipt of public funding;
4. High-level Athletes who reside, train or compete abroad and are under AMADA’s jurisdiction;
5. High-level Athletes who are nationals of other countries but who are residing in Azerbaijan, training in professional teams and competing;
6. Athletes serving a period of Ineligibility or a Provisional Suspension;
7. Athletes who were included in RTP or TP before they retired from the sport and who now wish to return;
8. Athletes having prior anti-doping rule violations, test history, including any abnormal biological parameters based on APMU recommendations;
9. Athletes with sport performance history and/or high performance without a commensurate Test record;
10. Athletes who have repeated Whereabouts failure;
11. Athletes with suspicious Whereabouts Filing patterns (last-minute updates of Whereabouts Filings);
12. Athletes who move to or train in a remote location;
13. Athletes who were withdrawn or absent from expected Competition(s);
14. Athletes who have association with a third party (such as a team-mate, coach or doctor) with a history of involvement in doping;
15. Athletes with injury;
16. Age/stage of career (e.g., move from junior to senior level, nearing end of contract, approaching retirement);
17. Athletes who receive financial incentives for improved performance;
18. Reliable information regarding the Athletes from a third party, or intelligence developed in accordance with ISTI Article 11;
19. Athletes whom AMADA plans to Test at least (3) times per year OOC
20. Athletes that are part of the AMADA’s Athlete Biological Passport haematological module program;
21. Athletes in a Testing pool who fail to comply with the whereabouts requirements;
22. Athletes for whom there is insufficient whereabouts information available locate them;
23. Athletes in a Team Sport who are not part of Team Activities for a period of time;

Athletes included in RTPpdf