http://www.triathlon.org/news/ en erin.greene@triathlon.org Copyright 2013 2013-05-15T22:47:14+00:00 http://www.triathlon.org/news/article/essential_triathlon_training_tips_the_finish http://www.triathlon.org/site/essential_triathlon_training_tips_the_finish#When:08:42:24Z As the saying goes, all good things must come to a close. Today we bring you the last video in this series of Essential Triathlon Training Tips. There’s no other way to wrap it all up than to talk about the triathlon finish itself. Finishing a triathlon is both an accomplishment and a reward. No matter if you run, walk, hobble, or crawl, crossing the line is cause for celebration. Stop to recognize your success and celebrate the journey of getting there. Take a moment to shake hands with your competitors, smile for the camera and give a little fist pump to reward yourself for completing such a tough athletic endeavor. Triathlon, after all, is all about challenging your limits and finishing one proves you had the courage to do it. While this is the last Essential Triathlon Training Tip in this series, check back next Tuesday for a new set of drills that will help you to your best race form. In the meantime, look for an ITU World Triathlon Series race near you here. Anti-Doping, Sport Development, 2013-04-23T08:42:24+00:00 http://www.triathlon.org/news/article/weekend_race_roundup_april_1_2013 http://www.triathlon.org/site/weekend_race_roundup_april_1_2013#When:09:07:59Z With a long holiday break for many around the world, there was just one lone race over the weekend. South Sumatra hosted the ITU Triathlon Premium Asian Cup in Indonesia, attracting a small, but international field of athletes on Sunday. Duathlon World Champion Felicity Sheedy-Ryan (AUS) took top honours in the women’s race. Not surprisingly, the strong runner clocked the fastest run split of the day by nearly two minutes for the win in two hours, six minutes, 48 seconds. Chika Sato (JPN) executed a smart race plan with solid performances in each discipline to take silver in 2:08:31. Her compatriot Kiyomi Niwata (JPN) was one of the fastest women out of the water, but slowed on the bike to ride with the chase group. She sealed up bronze with a sub-39 minute run for a total of 2:08:56. Three different National Federations were represented on the men’s podium, with Russia’s Ivan Tutukin outrunning Australia’s James Chronis for gold. The pair led start to finish, both swimming and biking in the lead group. However, Tutukin took off on the run, leaving Chronis behind and grabbing the win in 1:49:37. Chronis crossed the finish line next in 1:49:49. Simon Agoston (AUT), who was one of four men in the lead group off the bike, ran alone when he pulled ahead of Japan’s Yuichi Hosoda. Agoston earned bronze in 1:51:07. Anti-Doping, Athletes, Regions, Asia, Sport Development, 2013-04-01T09:07:59+00:00 http://www.triathlon.org/news/article/itus_registered_testing_pool_for_second_quarter http://www.triathlon.org/site/itus_registered_testing_pool_for_second_quarter#When:14:17:25Z The current ITU Registered Testing Pool (RTP) for the second quarter of 2013 is from April 1, 2013 to June 30, 2013.  Athletes in the ITU RTP are reminded that updates to their whereabouts information are now due for the second quarter. For more information on the RTP and for a list of athletes included in the RTP, please see below. Registered Testing Pool In order to better reflect the doping control test distribution plan carefully elaborated and prepared by the ITU, article 5.5 of the ITU Anti-Doping Rules has been reworded to include the non exhaustive criteria applied by the ITU when considering Athletes for inclusion in the ITU Registered Testing Pool. The International Level Registered Testing Pool may consist of the top ranked Athletes of the official ITU World Ranking List which is published on the ITU website and updated on a regular basis for each International Event, but may also include a variety of other triathletes as defined in article 5.5.1 All Athletes designated as included in the International Level Registered Testing Pool must submit whereabouts information to ITU Headquarters in accordance with ITU Anti-Doping Rules and the WADA International Standard for Testing, unless they are already submitting whereabouts to their National Anti-Doping Organization, who in accordance with article 5.6.4 will share this information confidentially with ITU as per a formal agreement concluded between them. For the latest Registered Testing Pool, click here. The Registered Testing Pool is the same as the First Quarter of 2013. ADAMS has been enhanced with many features to more effectively support athletes. Please ask if you have any questions about ADAMS. If you have any questions about ITU’s Anti-Doping programme, please contact the Director of Anti-Doping at leslie.buchanan@triathlon.org. Anti-Doping, Athletes, 2013-03-28T14:17:25+00:00 http://www.triathlon.org/news/article/anti_doping_update_march_14_2013 http://www.triathlon.org/site/anti_doping_update_march_14_2013#When:03:13:41Z ADAMS recently announced the release of Version 3.3 in early April, which will include the following enhancements: Improved Whereabouts Submission Process & Update Notification IMPORTANT: This enhancement has an impact on the athletes’ Whereabouts Submission Process. Please convey this information to all of your athletes as soon as possible. • The Current Whereabouts Submission and Update Notification functions have been redesigned. • We have made significant improvements to the Whereabouts Submission Process in preparation for the ADAMS Whereabouts mobile application that will be introduced later this year. • Following initial submission, all Calendar Updates become effective immediately, without requiring resubmission. • Any updates made to the Whereabouts Calendar post-submission are now accessible via a new “History” tab. Each entry displays details associated with the update made (i.e. user name, date and time, previous value). Whereabouts Update Submission Reminder • A Whereabouts Submission reminder appears when users navigate away from a Whereabouts quarter that includes an error or has not been submitted. Whereabouts Travel Entries - Process Streamlining • The Whereabouts travel entries process has been simplified. • Users no longer must select between daytime and overnight travel entry type since, for RTP athletes, exemptions will be automatically determined by ADAMS based on the entry start and end times. Whereabouts - Team Athlete Selection • Team Athlete Selection is more intuitive. • In addition to the search field, a complete list of athletes will be displayed, allowing users to select one or more elements. Athlete Information on Whereabouts Page • Information contained in the athlete banner, (i.e. ADAMS ID #, gender, date of birth, sport nationality and sport(s)/discipline(s)), has been added to the Whereabouts interface for convenient reference. Display Telephone Number(s) on Entry • Phone numbers in address entries are now displayed in the New/View/Edit Whereabouts entry dialog. Whereabouts - Additional Information Field • To provide information specific to a Whereabouts entry, users can edit the “Additional Information” field under Address entries. Whereabouts Multiple Days Clearing • This new option allows the user to clear all Whereabouts entries from one or more dates in the current quarter. SMS - Display SMS Activation Status in View Mode • SMS Activation Status is displayed under... Anti-Doping, Athletes, 2013-03-14T03:13:41+00:00 http://www.triathlon.org/news/article/2013_anti_doping_letter_to_national_federations_and_athletes http://www.triathlon.org/site/2013_anti_doping_letter_to_national_federations_and_athletes#When:21:24:05Z As another season of triathlon competitions gets underway, the ITU Anti-Doping Team takes the opportunity to remind all triathletes and their respective national federations of the importance of maintaining a zero-tolerance attitude towards doping in triathlon and to reiterate that each of you is an intrinsic part of the continued success of ITU’s anti-doping program. ITU is pleased to provide the following report on ITU’s 2012 Anti-Doping Program in the form of a Q & A. How many In-Competition doping controls at ITU events were reported in 2012? At the ITU World Triathlon Series, ITU World Cups, Continental Triathlon Championships, 492 In-Competition doping controls were reported. At all other multi-sport events, there were a further 116 In-Competition doping controls reported. Therefore, the total number of doping controls carried-out under the umbrella of the ITU in 2012 is a grand total of 608 reported tests. How many Out-of-Competition doping controls were carried out on triathletes in 2012? 305 Out-of-Competition Doping Controls were conducted. How many athletes were included in the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) Program at the end of the 2012? Over 100 athletes have had ABP tests completed on them in 2012. How many Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRV) occurred in Triathlon? Other Anti-doping Organisations reported five ADRVs in 2012, while ITU recorded two ADRVs. The two that ITU ruled on were both from in-competition tests for the prohibited substance methlhexaneamine and resulted in a period of ineligibility for both athletes. One athlete was from Russia and one was from Lavtia . How many missed tests or failure to submit whereabouts information cases were reported in 2012? Ten missed tests were counted against triathletes this past year. Eleven filing failures were reported against triathletes in 2012. Summary By carefully following its 2012 Test Distribution Plan and implementing its education ideal ideals, ITU is encouraged by the numbers yielded in this year-end report. Because we had so few positive doping cases at the international level in 2012, while still carrying out roughly the same number of doping controls and implementing the Athlete Biological Passport, ITU can proudly and confidently assert that all the testing and education initiatives it has undertaken in the past years have played an instrumental role in keeping the number of anti-doping rule violations and doping cases low. ITU is dedicated to maintaining and... Age Group, Anti-Doping, Regions, Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania, 2013-03-08T21:24:05+00:00 http://www.triathlon.org/news/article/anti_doping_update_february_27_2013 http://www.triathlon.org/site/anti_doping_update_february_27_2013#When:09:15:03Z In this week’s anti-doping update, ITU would like to share this article from WADA’s “Play True” magazine. The article, written by Professor MJ McNamee makes the argument for why the ‘spirit of sport’ is integral in the fight against doping. Check out what he has to say below. “In conferences concerning doping and anti-doping over the last few years there has been some criticism of the notion of the ‘spirit of sport’ which – among other things – is at the heart of anti-doping policy. These discussions can be distilled into two questions: firstly, what is the spirit of sport; and, secondly, how can it be used in anti doping policy? Answers typically take the form of it is too vague a concept, and that it has no use for anti-doping policy. In this short essay I want to indicate why both of these responses are neither robust nor right, and why the concept is worth fighting for and keeping at the core of the World Anti-Doping Code. What kind of problem is ‘vagueness’? In philosophical journals much ink has been spilt on the idea of conceptual vagueness and this is not the place to systematically survey that literature. Consider, however, some everyday concepts to see how problematic they really are in terms of vagueness. When does dawn break? Is it when the penumbra of light breaks the horizon? Or when the first edge of the sun appears? Or is it when the whole of the sun’s globe is in sight?  Well suppose we say ‘the latter is too late’. But are we in a position to say with absolute precision which of the former the right meaning?  Both seem to be in as good a position as the other. So the choice is to a certain extent arbitrary; we must come to agree on our judgments about it. Take a more common example: a color spectrum. On that spectrum when does yellow become ochre? Or, when does orange become red?  There is no sufficiently determinate place that allows us unequivocally to give the right answer to these questions regarding color words. Does this mean that there is no right answer? No. Does that mean we ought to avoid the use of color predicates? Again: no. Does it mean that we must make agreements in judgment and in practice? Yes. And, of course, we do this all the time. When we want to paint a room in the house we go to the store and get color cards from different paint brands, we see what they are called, how they compare, and so on. And we reach a decision for a specific purpose; how it will suit the furniture;... Anti-Doping, 2013-02-27T09:15:03+00:00 http://www.triathlon.org/news/article/anti_doping_update_february_20 http://www.triathlon.org/site/anti_doping_update_february_20#When:13:04:13Z WADA President John Fahey delivered his annual address to the world’s media in London on Tuesday and called on governments and international sports federations to step up their efforts in the fight against doping in sport. Speaking at WADA’s 2013 Media Symposium at the Sofitel London Heathrow, Mr. Fahey cited the Lance Armstrong case and last week’s Australian Crime Commission Report as proof that doping in sport remains an issue that requires priority attention. In particular, Mr. Fahey highlighted the continuing and growing influence of the criminal underworld in sport – especially through the trafficking and supply of doping substances – and the sophisticated means that athletes have to beat the system. “I have been asked many times recently whether a program of doping as widespread as that carried out by Mr. Armstrong and his team could happen in this day and age,” said Mr. Fahey, who is serving the final year of his six-year term as WADA President. “My answer has always been ‘perhaps’, and that we need to be ever alert to the increasingly sophisticated science available to athletes today and the growing influence of the underworld. “Whenever there are significant sums of money to be won, and glory to be gained, there always will be those willing to come up with new and more cunning ways to cheat.” Mr. Fahey also outlined the growing importance of intelligence and the gathering of non-analytical evidence in support of traditional testing programs, and called on WADA’s stakeholders to increase the Agency’s funding which has been frozen since 2011. “When you consider the hundreds of billions of dollars generated globally by sport every year, and the importance sport plays in our lives, it continues to surprise me why there is a reluctance to properly invest in protecting it,” explained Mr. Fahey. WADA Director General David Howman gave a detailed presentation on WADA’s activities for 2013 and the ongoing World Anti-Doping Code Review that reaches a conclusion at the World Conference on Doping in Sport in Johannesburg in November. Anti-Doping, 2013-02-20T13:04:13+00:00 http://www.triathlon.org/news/article/anti_doping_update_february_13_2013 http://www.triathlon.org/site/anti_doping_update_february_13_2013#When:12:27:56Z Representatives from nearly 20 organizations gathered in Lausanne last month to attend a presentation on the report ‘The Supply of Doping Products and the Potential of Criminal Law Enforcement in Anti-Doping: An Examination of Italy’s Experience’, and a related workshop on cooperation between law enforcement and anti-doping organizations hosted by WADA. The report - written by Dr. Letizia Paoli and Alessandro Donati and funded by WADA - examines the experience of Italy’s anti-doping law, analyzes the production and trade of doping products, and explores the challenges of reducing their supply. In particular, the authors identify challenges faced by anti-doping law enforcement, including those in the field of international cooperation, and look to draw policy implications from their analysis. “WADA was pleased to support this research,” said WADA Director General David Howman. “It is now widely accepted that the fight against doping in sport requires a closer collaboration between law enforcement and anti-doping organizations to gain further effectiveness, as demonstrated by numerous investigations and non-analytical doping cases. “The presentation of the report and the ensuing workshop was a valuable opportunity for experts from law enforcement, public authorities, WADA, International Sports Federations and National Anti-Doping Organizations to discuss the impact of national legislation on efforts to reduce the supply of doping substances and the fight against doping in sport, as well as the benefits of law enforcement action and intelligence sharing.” During the workshop, participants discussed the importance of several prerequisites for effective collaboration between law enforcement and anti-doping organizations. In particular, they discussed the existence or development of proper national legislation to make the supply of doping substances illegal and to enable investigations (including searches and seizures) by law enforcement into such supply and trafficking, as well as the sharing of information between government agencies and anti-doping organizations. A recent study on national legislation commissioned by WADA and UNESCO confirmed that a significant number of countries were still lacking proper legislation to enable investigations. WADA continues to advocate the criminalization of actions surrounding doping (e.g. supplying, trafficking, administering, facilitating, encouraging, aiding) in order to target not only athletes... Anti-Doping, 2013-02-13T12:27:56+00:00 http://www.triathlon.org/news/article/anti_doping_update_february_6_2013 http://www.triathlon.org/site/anti_doping_update_february_6_2013#When:09:26:08Z According to a media release from WADA, their “Athlete Committee has called on anti-doping organizations (ADOs) to increase the levels of education and information in their anti-doping programs. At a meeting in New York hosted by Major League Baseball (MLB), the Athlete Committee reiterated the need for reaching out to athletes and educating them on the dangers of doping and why it is morally wrong. During the two-day meeting, Committee members discussed the importance of international sports federations having values-based anti-doping education programs in their activities and for governments to introduce them through school curricula. The Committee also encouraged athletes and members of the athlete entourage to embrace the idea of signing a moral contract with their respective sports that would involve making an anti-doping pledge. “Education is a hugely important component of anti-doping and there should be more emphasis on education and awareness with the anti-doping organisations,” said Athlete Committee Chair Vyacheslav Fetisov. “We would also like to see athletes accepting the concept of a moral contract that stipulates they will not to partake in doping activities, and for this concept to be introduced into schools at an early age.” The Athlete Committee meets twice a year, and the main objective of the New York meeting was to discuss the latest changes suggested to the World Anti-Doping Code (Code) through the ongoing Code Review Process. The discussion resulted in many comments and recommendations, and the Committee was very firm in calling for stronger penalties for serious doping violations. It also called on sanctioned former cyclist Lance Armstrong to make a full confession to the anti-doping authorities for the sake of clean athletes across the world. Armstrong last year received a lifetime ban from the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for a series of doping violations,, and he recently publicly admitted that he took performance enhancing drugs during his cycling career. “While Lance Armstrong admitted to doping, it was also obvious that he was withholding information,” added Fetisov. “What he must do is make a full confession to the anti-doping authorities, make it under oath and disclose everything he knows about the doping that went on during his career. “He owes it to cycling, and he owes it to clean athletes the world over. He needs to take full responsibility for his actions.” The WADA Athlete... Anti-Doping, Athletes, Federations, Regions, Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania, 2013-02-06T09:26:08+00:00 http://www.triathlon.org/news/article/anti_doping_update_january_23_2013 http://www.triathlon.org/site/anti_doping_update_january_23_2013#When:10:44:52Z The deadline for the final consultation phases for Code Review Process and International Standards Review Process is March 1, 2013. If you have any suggestions for any amendments to strengthen the Code and the International Standards, please feel free to contact the ITU Anti-doping department by February 1, 2013. According to WADA, “The Code Review Process was launched on November 28, 2011 and the 1st Consultation Phase - during which WADA received 91 official submissions comprising 1,366 individual comments - was closed on March 15, 2012. The 2nd Consultation Phase ran from June 1 - October 10, 2012 and generated 109 submissions and 1,357 individual comments. Pursuant to the Review Process, WADA has published a ‘clean’ version and a ‘redlined’ version of the revised Code draft 2.0 on its website, as well as all submissions that had publication approval from their authors. The ongoing 3rd Consultation Phase of the Code Review started on December 3, 2012 and runs in conjunction with the 2nd Consultation Phase of the International Standards, which are designed to bring harmonization to areas of anti-doping. Final drafts of the Code and International Standards will be approved by the WADA Foundation Board at the World Conference on Doping in Sport in Johannesburg, November 12-15, 2013. The revised Code and International Standards will come into force on January 1, 2015. For more information on the Code Review Process, please click here. Anti-Doping, Athletes, Federations, Regions, Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania, 2013-01-22T10:44:52+00:00