100% me is UK Anti-Doping’s athlete-centred education programme, which supports athletes to compete clean. It is a symbol for clean athletes to show their effort, commitment and determination to perform at the highest level, without a need to enhance performance through doping. To find out more about 100% me, visit the Athlete Zone or follow [..]

The Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) enables athletes and anti-doping organisations to enter and share data related to doping control in order to meet their responsibilities under the World Anti-Doping Code (the Code). ADAMS is an online system which allows restricted sharing of data only with those organisations with a righ [..]

A doping control sample that shows the presence of a prohibited substance or its metabolites or markers (including elevated quantities of endogenous substances) or evidence of the use of a prohibited method following testing and its subsequent report. An adverse analytical finding does not necessarily lead to an anti-doping rule violation, since an [..]

Altitude is basically height and is used in anti-doping for the purposes of the Athlete Biological Passport. Altitude can affect an athlete’s blood variables e.g. red blood cell count. The World Health Organisation defines anything over 1000m as being at altitude.

Muscle-building chemicals - the synthetic derivatives of the naturally occurring male anabolic hormone testosterone. For further information on prohibited substances, please see the Prohibited List.

An organisation responsible for adopting and executing rules for initiating, implementing or enforcing any part of the doping control process. This includes, for example, the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, other major event organisations that conduct testing at their events, the World Anti-Doping Agency, In [..]

Determination that one of the following rule violations listed in the Code has occurred: The presence of a prohibited substance or its metabolites or markers in an athlete’s sample Use or attempted use by an athlete of a prohibited substance or a prohibited method Evading, refusing, or failing to submit to sample collecti [..]

The concept of an athlete biological passport (ABP) is the monitoring of selected biomarkers which indirectly reveal the effects of doping, as opposed to the traditional testing model.  Biological tracing throughout an athlete’s sporting career should make doping far harder to achieve undetected. An ABP comprises a longitudinal series of test [..]

Any coach, trainer, manager, agent, team staff member, official, medical or paramedical personnel, parent or any other person working to treat or assist an athlete participating in or preparing for sports competition. Visit the Support Personnel section of the website.

Information provided by or on behalf of an athlete detailing the athlete’s location on a daily basis in order to enable unannounced testing.