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Rights and Responsibilities

 
The anti-doping provisions are part of the rules of sport and protect the right of athletes to fair competition. It is important that sportswomen and sportsmen should know their rights and also their responsibilities. The main rights and responsibilities in the fight against doping are listed below.
 
Athletes have the following rights (the list is not exhaustive):
  1. correct and confidential treatment by the persons performing the controls;
  2. the right to be informed of the consequences in the event of refusal to comply;
  3. the right to be accompanied to the doping control by a trusted person;
  4. the right to use an interpreter if necessary;
  5. the right to have the control procedure explained;
  6. the right to choose from a selection of originally packaged control material;
  7. the right to the presence of a person of the same sex when providing a urine sample; to delegate the handling of the control material to the controlling person or to do this oneself;
  8. to take notes on the control procedure on the control form;
  9. to receive a copy of the signed form;
  10. to be informed of the results of the analysis;
  11. if the A sample is positive, to demand the analysis of the B sample within the prescribed period of time;
  12. in the event of the analysis of the B sample in the laboratory, to bring along a specialist of their choice;
  13. in the event of sanctions procedure to be given a hearing and to have a right of appeal
Athletes have the following responsibilities (the list is not exhaustive):
  1. to keep regularly informed about the list of banned substances (e.g. by consulting www.antidoping.ch;
  2. if undergoing medical treatment to inform specialists that they are practicing sport and are subject to the anti-doping provisions;
  3. athletes in a control in pool must report their location;
  4. to take every measure to ensure that no banned substances are ingested with food (incl. supplements);
  5. to accept controls when controls are carried out;
  6. if required to undergo controls to confirm this by signing the control form;
  7. to provide evidence of identity to the person carrying out the control;
  8. to obey the instructions of the control persons responsible;
  9. to accept supervision by a control person between the time of receiving the request to provide a sample and the time of reaching the control point;
  10. to sign the form after the control is completed.