World Triathlon is fighting against doping to combat cheating
Protecting clean triathletes by fighting against doping is a top priority for World Triathlon as they enter a new extended partnership with the International Testing Agency (ITA) until December 2024, as part of their zero-tolerance policy to combat cheating.
The World Triathlon Executive Board approved the transfer of a range of anti-doping activities to ITA, in order to increase the independence and professionalism of its clean sport efforts.
ITA is a world-leading body for delivering independent and transparent anti-doping programs that help to keep your sport true to its values of integrity, sportsmanship and fair-play. ITA handles anti-doping programmes for almost 50 International Federations and Major Event Organisers, including Olympic Events.
World Triathlon President and IOC member, Marisol Casado said, “This agreement is a very important step forward to guarantee the full independence of our anti-doping program, and I am absolutely convinced that this cooperation will bring great success to our organization”.
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.
