- ADAMS: The Anti-Doping Administration and Management System is a Web-based database management tool for data entry, storage, sharing, and reporting designed to assist stakeholders and WADA in their anti-doping operations in conjunction with data protection legislation.
- Doping Control: All steps and processes from test distribution planning through to the ultimate disposition of any appeal and the enforcement of Consequences, including all steps and processes in between, including but not limited to, Testing, investigations, whereabouts, TUEs, Sample collection and handling, laboratory analysis, Results Management, and investigations or proceedings relating to violations of Article 10.14 (Status During Ineligibility or Provisional Suspension).
- Event: A series of individual Competitions conducted together under one ruling body (e.g., the Olympic Games, World Championships of an International Federation, or Pan American Games).
- Event period: The Code states that the definition of event period is “The time between the beginning and end of an event, as established by the ruling body of the event.”
- In-competition period: The Code defines the in-competition period as “The period commencing at 11:59 p.m. on the day before a competition in which the athlete is scheduled to participate through the end of such competition and the sample collection process related to such competition.”
- International-Level Athlete (ILA): Athletes who compete in sport at the international level, as defined by each International Federation, consistent with the International Standard for Testing and Investigations.
Athletes participating in competitions organized by and under the IUKL brand. These are World Championships, European Championships, World Cups, European Cups, etc., in disciplines: All-around, Biathlon, 2-arms Jerk, 2-arms Long Cycle, Snatch, and Snatch 12 min.: All-around, Biathlon, 2-arms Jerk, 2-arms Long Cycle, Snatch, and Snatch 12 min. - National-Level Athlete (NLA): Athletes who compete in sport at the national level, as defined by each National Anti-Doping Organization, consistent with the International Standard for Testing and Investigations.
Athletes participating in competitions organized by National Federations (members of the IUKL), in disciplines: All-around, Biathlon, 2-arms Jerk, 2-arms Long Cycle, Snatch, and Snatch 12 min. - Out-of-competition period: The Code defines the out-of-competition period simply as “Any period which is not in-competition”.
- Registered Testing Pool: The pool of highest-priority Athletes established separately at the international level by International Federations and at the national level by National Anti-Doping Organizations, who are subject to focused In-Competition and Out-of-Competition Testing as part of that International Federation's or National Anti-Doping Organization's test distribution ISE – January 2021 Page 8 of 19 plan and therefore are required to provide whereabouts information as provided in Article 5.5 and the International Standard for Testing and Investigations.
- Results Management: The process encompassing the timeframe between notification as per Article 5 of the International Standard for Results Management, or in certain cases (e.g., Atypical Finding, Athlete Biological Passport, Whereabouts Failure), such pre-notification steps expressly provided for in Article 5 of the International Standard for Results Management, through the charge until the final resolution of the matter, including the end of the hearing process at first instance or on appeal (if an appeal was lodged).