Other Issues

ADAMS

The PASO MC used ADAMS to manage all anti-doping operations at these Games. Pre-

Games online training was provided by WADA to the PASO MC staff in charge of ADAMS.

While the use of ADAMS was a very positive step for PASO, some challenges were

observed regarding the respect of WADA’s requested deadlines to provide the list of

6,000 athletes that needed to be entered into ADAMS prior to the Games. The Pan

American Games Rules allow delegations to register their athletes up to 2 days prior to

the beginning of the Games while a minimum of a full week of work is necessary to enter

such a large number of athletes into ADAMS. Some efforts were done with temporary

lists but a lot of names and duplication errors were present and made it impossible to

start the OOCT Program before the beginning of the Games using the information in

ADAMS and created additional challenges during the first couple of days of competition.

This situation was at the same moment that ADAMS itself was facing problems that

required keeping the system offline for several days. To cope with this problem, the IO

Team recognized the efforts made by PASO MC in using an effective alternate method

for the randomized athlete selection in order to start the OOCT before the opening of the

Games, as mentioned before.

Throughout the Games, all DCFs and TUEs were entered daily into ADAMS by the PASO

MC or the TUEC. This allowed for an up-to-date record of all doping controls conducted

during the Games. The IO Team was able to monitor the doping control activities of the

Games and found this approach very helpful. While there were some errors with data

entry, the overall advantage of using ADAMS for record management during a Major

Games was clearly evident. Following the RIO 2007 recommendation to accelerate the

insertion of DCFs and TUEs into the system, positive changes and quicker turnarounds

were also observed.