The Anti-Doping Administration & Management System (ADAMS) was developed for this purpose. It is a Web-based database management system that simplifies the daily activities of all stakeholders and athletes involved in the anti-doping system.
Whereabouts Information
The Web-based functionality allows athletes to comply with the whereabouts rules of their sport by entering their information from anywhere in the world. Additionally, ADAMS supports the delegation of this responsibility to an authorised representative such as team manager, agent or other third party. This functionality also helps Anti-Doping Organisations (ADO) share whereabouts information, crucial for supporting athletes so that they do not need to enter their whereabouts more than once via multiple means. Athletes can also modify their whereabouts through the use of SMS messaging to ADAMS.
The ADAMS Whereabouts tutorial on how to submit whereabouts information is available on WADA’s Youtube channel.
Information contained on Whereabouts
Daily information on whereabouts that must be filled in by athletes every day when athletes are on trips, competitions, holidays and or on other days. the information where the daily abouts are in every quarter is as follows:
- Address and Contact Details (Home address/practice place, cellphone number and email address)
- Overnight Address (full address of the place where athletes usually rest or sleep at night such as in a hotel or dormitory)
- 60 minute time slot (specific 60 minute time slot reserved by athletes for testing)
- Competition Schedule and Location (name and address of the competition venue where athletes are scheduled to compete during the quarter)
- Information and Location of the place of training or other daily activities (date, time, address of the location where athletes will practice or carry out normal activities such as school or work)
TUE Management
ADAMS facilitates online management of TUE requests, as well as online notification to those involved in the process. TUE information is shared with all and only relevant parties, thus for the athlete one submission is all that is necessary. Upon approval of the TUE, ADAMS also provides the athletes the option to print their Certificate of Approval for their records.
