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Doping is
cheating
Doping is cheating. Respect
your team-mates and your
sport, but most of all respect
yourself. You don't want to
win knowing you have cheated.

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Get informed Check the Focus on good
Get informed about doping. prohibited list nutrition
Consult your team doctor, or
WADAs anti-doping prohibited A balanced and healthy diet
databases such as Global Drug
list is a vital tool for all athletes. can improve performance and
Reference Online
It describes the substances (or provide all the nutrients and
(www.globaldro.com) to ensure
classes of medications) and energy you need.
a safe and long-lasting career.
methods that athletes are
Always double-check any
forbidden from using. Always
medication: even if it is from
check the list before taking any
your doctor, its still your
medication. If you have any
responsibility. Not every doctor
doubts, make sure to check
is aware of the FIFA Anti-Doping
with your national anti-doping
Regulations and the World
organisation.
Anti-Doping Code.

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Be very careful Do not risk
with supplements your career
Be careful with supplements and It is against the rules to make, sell,
avoid them if you are not 100% buy or attempt to trafc any
sure about their contents. prohibited substance or prohibited
Supplements might contain method. It is against the rules to
prohibited substances, either due to possess, administer or attempt to
contamination or to deliberate administer any prohibited substance
spiking. You are responsible for or prohibited method.
what you take and you may face
sanctions. Never take substances or
supplements without consulting a
doctor, and do everything to reduce
the risks of inadvertent doping.

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Avoid social Anabolic steroids Don't forget
drugs are harmful your whereabouts
Avoid social drugs such as marijuana Anabolic steroids are bad for you. It Whereabouts are an important
and cocaine as they are a threat to often leads to hair loss, severe acne element to catch cheaters and keep
your health and could harm your (pimples), shrinking testicles, sport clean. Remember to make
playing career as well as your development of breasts in males, yourself available for testing when
personal life. Both of these early heart disease, and potentially required at a given time and place,
substances are prohibited by WADA dangerous psychological side seven days a week, as well as at all
for in-competition periods, but effects. training sessions and competitions.
marijuana may remain in your body If you miss a test three times in one
for many weeks after usage. year, you could face disciplinary
action. If you are in a registered
testing pool, you must submit your
whereabouts.

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Never refuse a Therapeutic use
test or tamper exemption
with a sample If you have a signicant health
problem, you may be able to apply
Falsication, exchange or
for a therapeutic use exemption to
destruction of a test sample and
use a prohibited substance or
evading, refusing or failing to
method. The treatment must not
submit to sample collection is a
improve your performance beyond
violation of the rules.
a return to normal and there must
be no other alternative treatment
available.