Your Pre-Arrival to-do list

1. Medication check

With your team doctor’s or NADO’s help, review all existing or foreseen medical treatments against WADA’s 2024 Prohibited List. Remember that substances and methods can be prohibited at all times or only during the in-competition period (and that substances prohibited in-competition must have left your system by this time). Medications that require a prescription, and those that can be bought over the counter, and recreational drugs can contain substances included on the Prohibited List, whilst some substances are also prohibited at certain doses and by certain routes of administration. Some brands of medication can have different active ingredients when bought in different countries, so be extra careful when travelling internationally.

Apply for a TUE if you need to use a substance or method on the prohibited list for health reasons (see section two below for further details on TUEs).

List all the medications you will need to have with you in Paris. Some medications require an import permission – liaise with your NOC for further information.

Remember the principle of Strict Liability as described in the “What is Prohibited” section earlier.

2. Paris 2024 Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs) process and timelines

If the athlete already has a TUE there is no need to formally request recognitions, as all previously existing TUEs will be reviewed in advance of the Games (for further details refer to Article 4.4 of the IOC Anti-Doping Rules for Paris 2024).  If an IF or NADO granted TUE is not available on ADAMs then the Athlete shall submit such TUE to the Therapeutic Use Exemption Committee (TUEC) at tue@ita.sport for recognition at least 30 days before the start of the Period of the Olympic Games.

If the athlete needs to obtain a new TUE:

- The responsible organisation (IF or NADO) is in charge of TUE management and their procedures need to be followed. In order to find out which organisation is responsible, please refer to the TUE page on the Inside.FEI.org.

- FEI TUE contact: tue@ita.sport.

If the need to obtain a TUE arises during the Olympic Games, i.e. a medical situation occurs during the Games, Athletes need to obtain a new TUE and must proceed as follows:

- Apply to the ITA’s TUE office located in the polyclinic of the Olympic Village (booking an appointment is advised).

- Fill in the TUE Application form.

- Sign it and have it signed by your physician, and gather all the necessary supporting medical documentation.

- Bring these to your appointment.

OR

- Submit the form and the supporting documentation directly in ADAMs, if you are familiar with the process.

For Games-time TUE support, call 0041 21 612 12 72. A French number will be provided during the Games.

Full information on the latest and most up to date information on the TUE process during the Games can be found here.

3. Supplements

As an athlete, it is crucial to approach supplement use with extreme caution. Using supplements is risky, as no guarantee can be given that a supplement is free from prohibited substances (supplements may be mislabeled, contaminated, or contain false claims). For example, manufacturing standards for supplements are less strict compared with medications. You can read more about this on Inside.FEI.org and on the ITA Athlete Hub.

4. Whereabouts

Whereabouts are information provided by a number of top elite athletes about their location so they can be subject to no-notice testing. Whereabouts information is uploaded onto a secure platform and can only be accessed by authorised persons acting on behalf of anti-doping organisations.

All athletes included in testing pools (e.g., Registered Testing Pool or Testing Pool) during the Games period must continue to maintain accurate and up-to-date whereabouts information as is normally required, including accommodation details whilst in France (e.g., block and room numbers if staying in the Athletes’ Village).

For athletes not included in a testing pool, the ITA, on behalf of the IOC, requires NOCs to provide whereabouts information during the Games period, including travel schedules, accommodation details and training schedules.

ITA Whereabouts tutorials can be accessed here.

You can check your horse is free from prohibited substances before you travel to Paris by carrying out Pre-Arrival Testing.

Samples submitted to the Pre-Arrival Testing programme will be analysed in exactly the same way as those taken during the Games.

Find out how to submit a sample via your NF.