Out-of-Competition Testing part 4

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The LOC didn’ provide accurate information about the date of arrival and

departure for specific athletes. Sometimes they provide the date of arrival and

departure for the delegation, but we did not know if a given athlete would arrive

with the first group of members of that delegation or at a later stage. The same

applies with the date of departure;

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The LOC provided, when available, the building where the delegations were

staying but without the room assignments. On several occasions the DCO arrived

at the building and members of the delegation refused to give the room list

without the DCO giving the name of the athlete or athletes to be tested, which

interfered with the no advanced notice requirement;

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The athlete is member of a delegation that is staying in the Village but competing

in a sport that is far away from the Village and decided to stay in an hotel nearby

the competition venue; and

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The athlete is staying in the Village but leaves very early to train at the venue

where the event is to take place or outside the Village and are not in the building

when the DCO tries to notify him/her.

The IO Team noticed that these issues occurred during the Pan American Games in Rio

2007 and recurs at most Major International Events (e.g. Olympic and Paralympics

Games, Commonwealth Games, Mediterranean Games, etc.) and for this reason thinks

that a solution should be found in order to solve this problem, so that other

organizations of Major International Events can be encouraged to follow the same

strategy. For example, ADAMS has been introduced at the Pan American Games and

should have been used by the participants as per the International Standard for Testing

(IST).

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