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6 November 2023
At the ITA, we are passionate about Keeping Sport Real. To successfully protect the integrity of sport, we need your help. We need to work as a team!
Preserving clean sport relies on you sharing with us every piece of the puzzle, big or small. Thanks to proactive reporting, major doping regimes have already been uncovered and dismantled.
The ITA has always strived to become the most athlete-centric anti-doping organisation in the world, and our ITA experts are no different. They are here to protect athletes wherever possible.
You can report anything you consider worthy of being mentioned to the ITA – anything you see, hear, know or even suspect. This could range from rumors of athletes doping; hearing about a coach suggesting doping; to seeing an athlete dope. There are many more examples but, ultimately, we are here to listen to any of your suspicions, doubts or experiences related to doping whilst also ensuring that the information you provide, and your identity is protected.
Every piece of information is important. You might hold the last piece of the puzzle that we are missing to protect the integrity of your sport.
Not all anti-doping rule violations necessarily involve prohibited substances that can be uncovered through testing. Instead, as mentioned above, proactive reporting by athletes can help the ITA uncover both doping regimes and single doping cases.
Some substances are also prohibited due to the negative impact they can have both on the health of the person taking them as well as on the health and safety of those athletes around them. By reporting an athlete doping in sport you would be helping fellow athletes and yourself.
According to statistics from the World Anti-Doping Agency, the global anti-doping regulatory body, a significant amount (98%) of proven anti-doping rule violations involves athletes. This means that less than 2% of rule violations are tied to Athlete Support Personnel, despite experience indicating that athletes rarely dope alone. In fact, behind many athletes who dope, there are different people who enable athletes to do so, such as coaches and medical personnel.
If you have any suspicions whatsoever of doping in sport, no matter how small the information may seem, you can report in confidence and anonymously via our REVEAL Platform.
REVEAL is a secure platform that was developed to help you report any information confidentially to our ITA experts. On REVEAL, you can choose the best option for you to share information with us. This includes:
IMPORTANT: Please do not hesitate to write to us in your own, native language! We want to help you!
ITA experts are highly trained professionals from our intelligence and investigations team which manages any information reported to them. This team has many years of experience of handling sensitive issues and is committed to protecting your identity as well as protecting your sport. Remember, we are all a team for clean sport!
At the ITA, we know that in many situations, athletes feel they are encouraged, coerced or even forced to dope despite their lack of willingness to do so, often in systems that present no opportunities for athletes to speak out, be independent or succeed outside of the rigid conditions imposed by their teams and federations.
So – how do the ITA experts seek to protect these athletes? How do they hold to account those officials putting this pressure on athletes to dope, who rarely face the career-altering consequences athletes do?
They speak to you, they listen, and they seek to understand.
Our ITA experts want to encourage all athletes who are facing these pressures or are aware of doping activities occurring that harm the health of athletes and erode the integrity of sporting competitions to come forward and speak to them.
The protection of the identity of the Proactive Reporter is at the heart of our experts’ work. They will treat your information confidentially and you can decide if you wish to remain anonymous. Once you have submitted a report, ITA experts will review and assess it. After the review, the ITA will consider taking potential action in a safe, considerate, and confidential manner. Our expert will also reply and provide feedback on your report, when possible.
By clicking here, you will see one of these ITA experts, Nicholas Raudenski, our Head of Intelligence and Investigations, explain to you: what happens when you send confidential information to the ITA experts through REVEAL.
If you want to know more about proactive reporting of doping in sport you can watch the below video that provides a comprehensive overview on the topic!
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