Presentation of Activities

Finnish Antidoping Agency (FINADA)

What is Doping?
- The prohibited substances have been listed to
list of prohibited substances maintained and
approved by the International Olympic
Committee (IOC) and World Anti-Doping
Agency (WADA)
Anti-doping Work in Finland
Finnish Antidoping Agency (FINADA)
- The activity was launched 2002
- Earlier under the activity of LIITE ry

Tasks:
- Promote anti-doping activities in cooperation with
other interest groups
- Responsible for doping control in Finland, with
respect to the international and national codes
Activities of FINADA

- Education and information

- Doping control
- Organization and development of doping tests in Finland
- Quality system for doping tests
- International activities
- Promotion of research activities
Finnish Antidoping Agency FINADA

Radiokatu 20
00240 Helsinki
Tel.: (09) 3481 2020
Fax: (09) 148 5195

E-mail: [email protected]
www.antidoping.fi
Prohibited Substances and Methods in
Sports

Finnish Antidoping Committee

FINADA
Doping in Different Sports
- Strength and speed sports

- Endurance sports

- Sports which demand concentration

→ Doping is possible in every sport

Athlete Commits to Doping When:
- His or her doping sample contains a prohibited
substance or its metabolic product, which proves the
use of prohibited substances or methods
- He or she has used a prohibited substance or method
- He or she manipulates the doping sample
- He or she evades or refuses to take a doping control
- He or she promotes the use of doping by e.g.
smuggling and selling doping substances
Groups of Doping Substances

S Prohibited substance groups

M Prohibited methods

P Prohibited substance groups in certain

sports
S Prohibited Substance Groups
S1. Anabolic agents
S2. Hormones and related substances
S3. Beta-2 agonists
S4. Agents with anti-estrogenic activity
S5. Diuretics and other masking agents
S6. Stimulants
S7. Narcotics
S8. Cannabinoids
S9. Glucocorticosteroids
S1. Anabolic Agents

- Testosterone derivatives, whose anabolic

effects are stronger than of testosterone

- E.g. methandienone, nandrolone, metenolone

and stanozolol

- Prohibited because:
- Increase muscular mass and strength
- Affect hormone balance and metabolism → prevent over-training
 Ill-effects
Sport injuries >Brain circulation disorder

Carbon hydrate Mental

metabolism disorder effects
Diabetes
Fat metabolism disorder
Anabolic
steroids Ill-effects on liver

>Heart and •Insufficiency

vascular diseases Hormonal disorder •Thrombus
•Tumors
Women Men
•Acne Youth •Impotence
•Hair growth •Stagnation •Breast growth
•Baldness of growth •Prostate cancer
•Menstruation disorders •Testicle atrophy
•Clitoris growth •Childlessness
M Prohibited Methods

M1. Enhancement of oxygen transfer

M2. Chemical and physical manipulation

M3. Gene doping

M1 Improving Oxygen Transport

a. Blood doping
- The use of own blood or foreign blood and all preparations containing
red blood corpuscles

b. Artificial oxygen transporters or liberators

- E.g. synthetic hemoglobin and fluorocarbons, RSR13 and other
corresponding compounds

- Prohibited because:
- Increase oxygen uptake → improve performance in endurance
sports
- Ill-effects:
- Risks in blood transfusion: allergic reactions, coagulation disorders
and sudden deaths
- Risks in the use of blood preparations: various infections (HIV,
hepatitis, malaria)
P Prohibited Substance Groups in
Certain Sports

P.1 Alcohol

P.2. Beta-blockers
Nutrition Supplements
- Problems:
- Insufficient product labels
- Impurities, which are prohibited substances in sports
- Precursor of testosterone and nandrolone, vegetarian stimulating
doping substances
- Control process of the preparations
- Recommendable to avoid using preparations claimed
to increase testosterone production
- A written certificate from the producer, importer or
retailer on that the preparation does not contain
prohibited substances
- positive doping result → doping case with an option to demand
economic compensation
Athletes at Doctor and Pharmacy
- Remember to inform your doctor and
pharmacist about your sport hobby
- Some prescription free medicines are
prohibited for athletes
- If needed, the athlete must himself or herself
control (e.g. on FINADA website) that the
medicine prescribed by a doctor is not on the
list of prohibited substances
- The athlete has the final responsibility
Prohibited Substances and Methods in
Sports
Based on the lists of the IOC
and WADA

Annually updated

Updated list can be found in:

www.antidoping.fi

An athlete must be aware of the

binding rules of the sport
association
Doping Control

Finnish Antidoping Agency

FINADA
Doping Control is Targeted at

- Athletes who participate in organized sports

- Athletes who have a competition license or members of a
sport club and of sport associations

- Test activities are concentrated on top athletes

in different sports
Doping Tests in Finland

- In addition to FINADA, also the following

organizations perform doping controls in Finland:
– World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
– International sport federations
– Expert groups responsible for doping controls in international
competitions

- The controls will always be performed by FINADA or

a group authorized by the organizations mentioned
above
Doping Control Officers Authorized
by FINADA

- 30 authorized doping
control officers
- The authorization is
granted for two years at a
time
What Is the Purpose of Doping
Control?

- To prevent the use of substances and methods,

which are dangerous to health and/or increase
performance
- Secure the athletes the right to honest and fair
play
- Respect the ethics in sports and medicine
Urine and blood tests
- So far no doping substances are screened directly from
blood
- Detection of growth hormone and blood doping in
blood
- Some values analysed from blood (e.g. haemoglobin,
haematocrit and reticulocyte) are used when screening
athletes for EPO tests
- A blood test does not replace a urine test
- In future, blood and urine tests will be conducted side
by side
Doping test types
1. In-competition tests
2. Out-of-competition tests
- at training place or home (place of stay)
- bailiff tests – notification delivered at home
- Tests conducted without advance notice in
competitions and training or at home
- Athletes can be requested to undergo a doping
test at any time or place in Finland or abroad
Testing pool
- Athletes included by FINADA
- testing pool athletes of international federations
- adult support athletes of the Olympic Committee (not shooting,
archery, etc.)
- other national top athletes
- Belong to targeted doping control
- Athletes in the testing pool are required to provide
whereabouts information
- Athletes receive written notification of being included
in the testing pool
- They will also be notified when excluded from the
testing pool
 Whereabouts information
- Athletes provide their whereabouts information
- primarily online using the Antidoping Passport system
(www.antidoping.fi/passi)
- by letter
- by e-mail ([email protected])
- by fax
- or quick updates even by SMS to the doping control manager
- Whereabouts information must be provided in written
form to FINADA for periods of three months
- information can and must be updated during each period
- If an athlete provides his/her whereabouts information
to an international federation, he/she can send the same
document to FINADA
- Failure to provide whereabouts information is
considered to be an antidoping rule violation
 Targeted testing
- Targeted testing mainly concerns athletes in the testing
pool
- Applies to tests both in competition and out of
competition
- an identified invitation
- An athlete is taken to tests from his/her home more often
- if he/she has given his/her home address as the whereabouts
information
- if he/she has provided inadequate training location information
- if he/she has not provided his/her whereabouts information
- if he/she is not in the testing pool and the only known address is his/her
home address
Testing equipment

• Equipment may vary

between countries
• Regardless of equipment
used, testing methods
follow the same principles
1. Reporting for doping control
You will be asked to show your
identity card and give your
personal, contact and other
relevant information

You are entitled to have a

representative present at the
doping control

You are entitled to leave the

doping control station only with
the agreement of the doping
control officer in charge and
under proper observation
2. Selection of sample collection vessel

When you are ready to

provide a urine sample,
you may select a sample
collection vessel, open it,
and make sure that it is
unbroken and clean
3. Supervision of sample collection
The urine sample provision will be
carried out in a sample collection room
(usually a toilet) under observation of a
person who is the same gender as you

You must remove sufficient clothing so

that the doping control officer has an
unobstructed view of the passing of the
sample into the collection vessel

You shall provide minimum of 75 ml

urine

Only you should handle your sample and

the collection vessel

If the volume of urine is insufficient

(<75 ml), you must provide a new
sample. Your sample will be sealed
temporarily
4. Selecting the sample containers
When you have provided your
sample, close the vessel, and return
to the doping control administration
room

You may now select a sample

collection kit, consisting of “A” and
“B” labelled bottles, which will
secure and identify your sample

You must check that the seal of the

sample collection kit is unbroken.
Then open the kit and make sure
that the bottles are unbroken, empty
and clean, and that the security
codes of the bottles and sealed caps
are identical.
5. Dividing the sample into the ”A” and
”B” bottles
Sample division:
Pour a minimum of 50 ml (lower
part of label) into the A bottle
(orange label) and a minimum of
25 ml (lower part of label)
into the B bottle (blue label)

You should leave a few drops in

the sample collection vessel to
check that the sample is suitable
for analysis
6. Sealing the samples

You will be asked to remove the

red safety rings
from the top of the bottles

You should close

the bottles by screwing on the
sealed caps until the
clicking stops and the cap cannot
longer be tightened

Make sure that the bottles do not

leak and cannot be
opened
7. Checking pH and concentration of
sample

The doping control officer will

check the pH and concentration
of your urine sample which is
left in the sample collection
vessel to ensure that the sample
is suitable for analysis

If it is not, you may be asked to

provide another
sample
8. Filling in the doping control form
You should disclose any
medication you have taken over
the last seven days

You should also record any

vitamins, food supplements and
herbal products that you have
taken

It will be noted on the doping

control form if you are satisfied
with the doping control
procedures. If not, you should
give your reasons on the doping
control form.
 9. Checking and signing the doping
control form
You will be asked to
carefully check all
information on the doping
control form, and,
particularly to make sure
that the security codes of
the bottles and the doping
control form are identical

You will then sign the form

and receive a copy of it
Doping Control Form
 EPO screenings and blood tests
• EPO screenings are targeted at elite
athletes in endurance sports

• About 150 EPO tests on urine are

done annually in Finland, some of them
also including blood screening

• The blood tests are done in order to

Berlinger: Bereg-Kit for blood screening tests detect the use of blood doping and
growth hormone
 Athlete’s Obligations in Doping
Controls
An athlete is obligated to:
- Be aware of the antidoping codes concerning him or her
(IOC, WADA, international sport association,
FINADA)
- Prove his or her identity
- Follow the given instructions
- Be responsible for his or her sample, until it has been
carefully sealed to appropriate sample bottles
- Make sure that his or her sample is sealed and
identified
- List on the test document the medical substances,
natural products and nutritional supplements he or she
has used
- Make sure that the necessary documents have been
appropriately filled and sign them
Athlete’s Rights in Doping Controls
An athlete has the right to:
- Choose the control equipment from appropriately
packed control equipments
- Enjoy appropriate (unopened and alcohol-free)
beverages provided by the control group or own
beverages
- Make a written notification to the control organization
or his or her own sport federation in case there is a
reason to make remarks
- Get his or her remark also on the doping control
document
- Get information about the consequences in case of
violating the rules by e.g. refusing to give a sample
- Receive copies of the documents named for him or her
Athlete’s Rights in Doping Controls
An athlete has the right to:
- To give interviews to the media
- Perform limbering exercises, get his or her clothes and
enjoy beverages
- Participate in award ceremonies and other ceremonies
- Receive necessary medical treatment
- Ask to see the authorization card of the doping control
officer
- Have a companion (e.g. team leader, doctor or
caretaker) and an interpreter in the control
- Receive the required information on issues related to
doping controls from the doping control officer or
FINADA
Sample to the Laboratory
- The sample is delivered to the laboratory
- After the control, the sealed sample and the laboratory
copies of the control documents are sealed to a
transportation bag
- The laboratory copies do not contain any information
about the athlete’s identity
- The samples are delivered to a laboratory approved by
the IOC/WADA (in Finland, the United Laboratories
Ltd)
- The laboratory confirms receiving the samples, makes
sure that the transportation bag has been sealed and
that the content of the bag is appropriate
Sample B
- Sample B will only be analyzed in case the sample A
has been found positive
- Sample B will be analyzed after a request of the
athlete, and on the expense of the athlete or the sports
federation
- The athlete or his/her representative has the right to be
present when the sample B is analyzed in the
laboratory
- In the laboratory, the sample B will not be analyzed by
the same personnel, which performed the analysis of
the sample A
- In case the test result of the sample B does not confirm
the positive test result of the sample A, the temporary
suspension will immediately expire
Doping Controls in Finland 1984-
2006
2500
9 6
19 15 8
2000 10
21 9 7
1500 12
8
1000 13 6 4 14 22 14 16 12
5 19 6

500
3
0
4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 00 02 04 06
-8 -8 -8 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 0 0 0 0
2 2 2 2
control/year
Most Controlled Sports in 2006

180 166
160
140
116
120
94 94 90
100
80
60
40
20
0
Athletics Icehockey Skiing Powerlifting Football
Clean Sports

- Most athletes are clean

- 1 percent of the controlled athletes have used
prohibited substances, therefore, 99 percent of
the controlled athletes are clean
- An athlete is clean until proven otherwise
Athlete’s Responsibility

- An athlete is responsible for the use of doping

– He or she is also responsible for not by mistake use e.g.
medicines, which are classified as prohibited substances

- The athlete must be available for doping

controls. Therefore, he or she has to regularly
inform FINADA and his or her sports
association about his or her whereabouts