Anti Doping
British Shooting Anti-Doping Policy
British Shooting supports and abides by, in full, the policies of UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and has adopted the UK Anti-Doping Rules as the Anti-Doping Rules of British Shooting.
Doping is the administration of a prohibited substance and/or method designed to enhance sport performance or aid recovery. It undermines the integrity of sport, the ethos of competition and can adversely affect the health and well-being of individuals. For these reasons many countries, including the UK, supported the creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency and implementation of the World Anti-Doping Code and International Standards.
All members of the National Governing Bodies that comprise British Shooting, who compete in shooting events, are subject to the possibility of anti-doping testing both in and out of competition.
Links:
UK Anti-Doping www.ukad.org.uk
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) www.wada-ama.org
How to check your medication:
Please consult your doctor before taking or changing any prescribed medication.
Global Drug Reference Online www.globaldro.com provides athletes and support personnel with information about the prohibited status of specific substances based on the current World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited List.
Dietary Supplements: Global DRO does not contain information on, or that applies to, dietary supplements. If a component of a supplement is listed in this database as permitted, the status of any supplement that includes the ingredient is at your own risk.
UK Anti-Doping recommends athletes assess the need and the risk before using a supplement. In order to assist athletes with assessing the need to use supplements we recommend contacting a registered sports dietician or nutritionist. To assess the risk of using dietary supplements HFL Sports Science have set-up the Informed-Sport programme. Products on the scheme undergo tests for the presence of banned substances throughout the manufacture and production process. Their website contains a list of all products which have been through the risk assessment programme and can be viewed at http://www.informed-sport.com/.
Please note that no guarantee can be given that any particular supplement is free from prohibited substances.
Anti-Doping in Sport
UK Anti-Doping is the national body responsible for the implementation and management of the UK National Anti-Doping Policy. Responsible for ensuring sports bodies in the UK comply with the World Anti-Doping Code, UK Anti-Doping works with a variety of stakeholders, including athletes, to support clean sport.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is the international independent organisation created in 1999 to promote, coordinate and monitor the fight against doping in sport in all its forms.
WADA is composed and funded equally by the sports movement and governments of the world. Its key activities include scientific research, education, development of anti-doping capacities and monitoring of the World Anti-Doping Code (the Code) - the document harmonising regulations regarding anti-doping in all sports and all countries.
Athletes are required to follow the anti-doping rules of their sport which adopt the Code. The Code is supported by five International Standards that ensure a uniformed approach to anti-doping around the world.
The Prohibited List - reviewed annually, the Prohibited List identifies substances and methods that are prohibited in and out-of-competition.
International Standard for Testing - ensures that policies and procedures for testing athletes are consistent and maintain the integrity of samples, collected as part of Doping Control, from notification through to transporting for analysis.
International Standard for Laboratories - ensures that samples are treated in a way that protects their integrity through robust quality assurance standards and uniformed reporting of results from all WADA accredited laboratories.
International Standard for Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) - ensures a harmonised approach in the granting of a TUE for a prohibited substance and/or method.
International Standard for the Protection of Privacy and Personal Information - ensures information held on athletes by anti-doping organisations is stored securely and maintains confidentiality.
Fundamental to the Code is the principal of strict liability – an athlete is solely responsible for any prohibited substance found in their system regardless of how or why it got there.
As the country’s National Anti-Doping Organisation, UK Anti-Doping is responsible for upholding and implementing the requirements of the Code.