UK Sport carried out a total of 1,712 tests between 1 April and 30 June in the first quarter of its 2009/10 national anti-doping programme, according to figures released today by the organisation.
During this period, there have been five confirmed anti-doping rule violations added to the Drugs Results Database, with a further two deemed to be ‘no case to answer’. Tests were carried out on behalf of 50 national governing bodies and international federations covering 33 sports.
Tests conducted during the period under review included:
Football Association – 362
Rugby Football League – 151
British Cycling Federation – 134
Rugby Football Union – 130
Amateur Rowing Association – 77
Of the tests carried out so far across the 09/10 programme, 51% have been conducted out-of-competition, covering those taken at squad training sessions and individual testing conducted using the whereabouts information athletes provide via ADAMS (Anti-Doping Administration and Management System). Meanwhile the ICC World Twenty20 Championships, the Paralympic World Cup and the London Marathon were amongst those events included in the 49% of in-competition tests conducted.
Andy Parkinson, Director of Drug-Free Sport at UK Sport, said:
“It is great to be able to show that, despite the work and focus going in to the establishment of UK Anti-Doping, it is very much business as usual as far as our testing programme is concerned. This has been an intense period of testing, particularly with a number of events being staged in the UK across various sports. This is reflected in a higher than usual percentage of in-competition tests, although I am confident we will hit our out-of-competition targets by the end of the year.”
The full report is available to download now. Meanwhile, details of all closed cases can be found on the Drug Results Database section of the UK Sport website (www.uksport.gov.uk/drugs).
