World Triathlon is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with the International Testing Agency (ITA) for the management and implementation of the World Triathlon Anti-Doping programme until December 2024.
The World Triathlon Executive Board approved
the transfer of the anti-doping activities to ITA, an independent organization
that will guarantee a much more independent management of its anti-doping
programme and resources within the sport of triathlon and our organization.
“This agreement is a very important
step forward to guarantee the full independence of our anti-doping programme,
and I am absolutely convinced that this cooperation will bring great success to
our organization, said World Triathlon President and IOC member, Marisol Casado.
From January 2022, ITA will be
updating, monitoring and amending the Risk Assessment, and will be in charge of
the development and implementation of the Test distribution plan. ITA will also
establish and manage the Registered Testing Pool of World Triathlon, and its
consequent management of the whereabouts submission process.
The ITA will be in charge of the
organization and management of the Out-of-Competition tests, and the
In-Competition testing activities at all World Triathlon events. The
International Testing Agency will continue to be in charge of the
administration of the Athlete Biological Passports.
The International Testing Agency will
also support the delivery of the Education activities in compliance with the
international standard of education. The agreement includes 60 hours of
education-related work and support of different activities, in coordination
with World Triathlon.
World Triathlon will have full access
to the ITA’s Whistleblowing platform -Reveal- and the preliminary assessment of
the information received via this platform. Both organizations will work on the
development and implementation of a long-term storage and reanalysis policy and
long-term storage of samples in the ITA’s centralised storage facility.
World Triathlon will retain
responsibility over the management of its Therapeutic Use Exemption program and
will also continue overseeing the Results Management process. World Triathlon
and the ITA will pursue the discussions over 2022 to delegate these remaining
areas of World Triathlon’s anti-doping programme.
ABOUT WORLD TRIATHLON
World Triathlon is the international
governing body for the Olympic and Paralympic sport of triathlon and all
related multisport disciplines around the world, including duathlon, aquathlon,
cross triathlon and winter triathlon. Triathlon made its Olympic debut in
Sydney 2000, with a third medal event, the Mixed Team Relay, added to the
programme at Tokyo 2020, while para triathlon was first added to the Paralympic
programme at Rio 2016. World Triathlon is proudly committed to the development
of the sport worldwide, with inclusion, equality, sustainability and
transparency at our core as we seek to help triathletes at all levels of the
sport to be extraordinary.
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