The World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) printed the 2025 Checklist of Prohibited Substances and Strategies, which was accredited by WADA’s Govt Committee (ExCo) throughout its assembly on 12 September 2024 and enters into power on 1 January 2025.
WADA additionally printed:
- the 2025 Abstract of Main Modifications and Explanatory Notes (https://www.wada-ama.org/websites/default/information/2024-09/2025_list_explanatory_note_en_final_11_september_2024.pdf) as in comparison with the 2024 Checklist; and
- the 2025 Monitoring Program (https://www.wada-ama.org/websites/default/information/2024-09/2025_list_monitoring_program_en_final_clean_11_september_2024.pdf) , which incorporates substances that aren’t on the Checklist, however that WADA needs to watch so as to detect potential patterns of misuse in sport.
The Checklist is among the eight Worldwide Requirements which are obligatory for all Signatories of the World Anti-Doping Code. It designates which substances and strategies are prohibited each in- and out-of-competition and which substances are banned specifically sports activities.
WADA Director Normal Olivier Niggli mentioned: “We encourage athletes, their entourage and all stakeholders to acquaint themselves with the Abstract of Main Modifications to keep away from inadvertent use of gear and strategies which are prohibited in sport for 2025. Particularly, we kindly ask all Anti-Doping Organizations world wide to share the Checklist and its associated paperwork with athletes, their entourage, and different related stakeholders underneath their jurisdiction.
Main modifications for 2025
As outlined within the 2025 Abstract of Main Modifications and Explanatory Notes (https://www.wada-ama.org/websites/default/information/2024-09/2025_list_explanatory_note_en_final_11_september_2024.pdf) , the main modifications for 2025 embrace the next:
- Additional examples have been added to the next substance lessons to assist athletes and their entourage higher establish prohibited substances:
+ S0. Non-approved substances,
+ S4. Hormone and metabolic modulators,
+ S5. Diuretics and masking brokers, and
+ S6. Stimulants. - The dosing intervals of formoterol have been modified, although the utmost every day delivered dose stays the identical.
- Donation of blood and blood parts together with by apheresis are not prohibited if carried out in an accredited assortment middle.
- Hydrafinil is now labeled as a non-specified stimulant.
- It’s clarified that guanfacine shouldn’t be a prohibited substance.
- Beta-blockers are not prohibited in any snowboarding and snowboarding disciplines.
Annual record evaluate course of
WADA leads an annual revision course of regarding the Checklist, starting with an preliminary assembly in January and concluding with the publication of the Checklist by 1 October. That is an intensive session course of that features WADA’s Checklist Knowledgeable Advisory Group gathering data together with the most recent scientific and medical analysis, tendencies, and intelligence gathered from legislation enforcement and pharmaceutical corporations; circulating a draft Checklist amongst stakeholders; and, taking their submissions into consideration to revise the draft, adopted by evaluate by the Company’s Well being, Medical and Analysis (HMR) Committee. The HMR Committee then makes its suggestions to WADA’s ExCo, which approves the Checklist throughout its September assembly.
For a substance or methodology to be added to the Checklist, it have to be decided that it meets at the least two of the next three standards:
- It has the potential to boost or enhances sport efficiency
- It represents an precise or potential well being danger to the athletes
- It violates the spirit of sport
The Checklist is launched three months forward of it taking impact in order that athletes, their entourage, and different stakeholders can acquaint themselves with any modifications. Finally, athletes are accountable for prohibited substances discovered of their physique and prohibited strategies discovered to have been used. Members of an athlete’s entourage are additionally responsible for Anti-Doping Rule Violations if decided to be complicit. Consequently, if there’s any doubt as to the standing of a substance or methodology, it is crucial that they contact their respective Anti-Doping Organizations (Worldwide Federation or Nationwide Anti-Doping Group) for recommendation.
The Therapeutic Use Exemption Program
It needs to be famous that athletes who’ve a respectable medical cause for utilizing a prohibited substance or methodology that’s on the Checklist can apply for a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) to find out whether or not they meet the standards outlined within the Worldwide Customary for Therapeutic Use Exemptions (ISTUE). The TUE Program is a rigorous and essential a part of elite sport and has overwhelming acceptance from athletes, physicians, and anti-doping stakeholders.
Instructional assets
Along with the paperwork linked above, WADA has offered, or will present, instructional assets as a part of its Code Implementation Help Program (CISP), which could be accessed on the Company’s Anti-Doping Training and Studying Platform (ADEL). These assets embrace:
- A CISP Guidelines – Implementing Revised Checklist (obtainable now)
- Athlete and ASP Information to the 2025 Checklist (to be obtainable mid-December)
Languages and codecs
The 2025 Prohibited Checklist, the 2025 Abstract of Modifications and Explanatory Notes, and the 2025 Monitoring Program can be found for obtain on WADA’s web site in English and French, with Spanish to observe within the coming weeks.
Stakeholders wishing to translate the Checklist into different languages are kindly requested to sign their curiosity to code@wada-ama.org. WADA will then present the required information and, as soon as the interpretation is finalized, will make the translated Checklist obtainable on the Company’s web site.
The Checklist’s mobile-friendly digital version will go stay on 1 January 2025.
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