Article 11 - Consequences To Teams
Article 11 - Consequences To Teams
Article 11 - Consequences To Teams
11.1 Testing of Team Sports
11.1 Testing of Team Sports
Where more than one (1) member of a team in a Team Sport has been notified of an anti-doping rule violation under Article 7 in connection with an Event, the ruling body for the Event shall conduct appropriate Target Testing of the team during the Event Period.
11.2 Consequences for Team Sports
11.2 Consequences for Team Sports
If more than two (2) members of a team in a Team Sport are found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation or violation of Article 10.14.1 during an Event Period, the ruling body of the Event shall impose an appropriate sanction on the team (e.g., loss of points, Disqualification from a Competition or Event, or other sanction) in addition to any Consequences imposed upon the individual Athletes committing the anti-doping rule violation or violation of Article 10.14.1.89 In Team Sports, where a period of Ineligibility is imposed upon a team, unless fairness requires otherwise, the period of Ineligibility shall start on the date of the final hearing decision providing for Ineligibility or, if the hearing is waived, on the date Ineligibility is accepted or otherwise imposed. Any period of team Provisional Suspension (whether imposed or voluntarily accepted) shall be credited against the total period of Ineligibility to be served.
11.3 Event Ruling Body or International Federation may Establish Stricter Consequences for Team Sports
11.3 Event Ruling Body or International Federation may Establish Stricter Consequences for Team Sports
The ruling body for an Event may elect to establish rules for the Event which impose Consequences for Team Sports stricter than those in Article 11.2 for purposes of the Event.90
Footnotes
89 [Comment to Article 11.2: See Comment to Article 9 regarding team Competition in Individual Sports.]
90 [Comment to Article 11.3: For example, the International Olympic Committee could establish rules which would require Disqualification of a team from the Olympic Games based on a lesser number of anti-doping rule violations during the period of the Games.]