Article 20    Additional Roles and Responsibilities of Athlete Support Personnel

Article 20    Additional Roles and Responsibilities of Athlete Support Personnel

20.1     To be knowledgeable of and comply with the Rules and rules adopted pursuant to the Code and which are applicable to them or the Athletes whom they support.

20.2     Athlete Support Personnel shall make themselves available for Education in order to support the provision of accurate anti-doping information to the Athletes who they support, particularly in the case of Protected Persons and Minors.

20.3    To cooperate with the Athlete Testing program.

20.4     To use their influence on Athlete values and behavior to foster anti-doping attitudes.

20.5     To disclose to the Commission and their International Federation any decision by a non-Signatory finding that they committed an anti-doping rule violation or violation of Article 10.14.1 within the previous ten (10) years.

20.6     To cooperate with Anti-Doping Organisations investigating anti-doping rule violations or violations of Article 10.14.1.¹⁰⁸ 

20.7     Athlete Support Personnel shall not Use or Possess any Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method without valid justification.¹⁰⁹ 

20.8     No Person subject to a period of Ineligibility shall provide Athlete Support Personnel services to any Athlete or other Person who is bound by rules adopted pursuant to the Code.

20.9    To exercise the highest duty of care in supporting Athletes to protect them from the risk of an unintentional anti-doping rule violation.

Footnotes

108    [Comment to Article 20.6: Failure to cooperate is not an anti-doping rule violation under the Code, but it may be the basis for disciplinary action under the rules or conduct requirements of the relevant National Sporting Organisation. The requirement for cooperation shall respect appropriate procedural safeguards (including without limitation the right to legal counsel and the right not to self-incriminate) as described in the International Standard for Intelligence and Investigations.]

¹⁰⁹        [Comment to Article 20.7: In those situations where Use or personal Possession of a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method by an Athlete Support Person without justification is not an anti-doping rule violation under the Code, it should be subject to other sport disciplinary rules. Coaches and other Athlete Support Personnel are often role models for Athletes. They should not be engaging in personal conduct which conflicts with their responsibility to encourage their Athletes not to dope.]