Your part in clean sport
All athletes have a responsibility to keep sport clean. Your role involves:
- being true to yourself and maintaining 100% me values
- making decisions that reflect the ethos, integrity and rules of sport
- checking all medications before you take them using Global DRO
- telling relevant people that you are an athlete and have to abide by the anti-doping rules
- being extremely cautious with supplement use
- knowing what to expect at a drugs test and the main stages of the testing process, so you are prepared if you are tested
- reporting any suspicions or concerns about doping in sport via UK Anti-Doping’s confidential phone line, Report Doping in Sport.
The UK’s role in clean sport
UK Anti-Doping is the body responsible for doping-free sport in the UK. It makes sure that sports adopt the correct anti-doping rules, to protect the right of athletes to compete in doping-free sport. You can find out more in the ‘What we do’ section of the website.
The role of clean sport on a global scale
UK Anti-Doping is a National Anti-Doping Organisation (NADO). NADOs are responsible for testing athletes in- and out-of-competition. NADOs also educate and test athletes from other countries who are competing within their borders. Most countries have a NADO which undertakes similar functions to UK Anti-Doping.
The World Anti-Doping Code
The World Anti-Doping Code is the global set of anti-doping rules that are adopted by all sports and all countries. The Code is governed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), an independent organisation that governs anti-doping globally. The Code is essential to protect you as an athlete. Its purpose is to ensure that athletes benefit from the same anti-doping protocols and protections, whatever their nationality or sport, and wherever they are competing. The ultimate goal is safe and fair competition worldwide.
The most important thing to remember is that all athletes across the world have strict liability. It is always the individual athlete who is responsible for what is in their body, regardless of whether there was an intention to cheat or not.
