Clean Sport: Principles & Values
These principles and values are the bedrock of Clean Sports, providing a moral and ethical compass for athletes, coaches, and all stakeholders in the sporting world. By embracing and promoting these principles, we can work together to ensure the integrity, credibility, and enduring appeal of sports:
1. Integrity: Upholding the highest standards of honesty and fairness in both competition and training, without resorting to performance-enhancing substances or methods.
2. Respect: Demonstrating respect for fellow athletes, coaches, officials, and the sport itself by competing fairly and with sportsmanship.
3. Equality: Ensuring a level playing field for all athletes, regardless of their background, by refraining from doping and adhering to anti-doping regulations.
4. Health and Safety: Prioritizing the well-being and long-term health of athletes by avoiding the use of substances or methods that could harm their physical or mental health.
5. Transparency: Being open and honest about one's actions, including any medications or supplements taken, and cooperating fully with anti-doping authorities during testing and investigations.
6. Education: Continuously seeking knowledge and understanding of anti-doping rules and regulations to make informed choices and avoid unintentional violations.
7. Accountability: Taking personal responsibility for one's actions and choices, including the substances ingested or methods used, and accepting consequences for any anti-doping rule violations.
8. Fair Play: Competing with honor, following the rules of the sport, and accepting both victory and defeat with grace and humility.
9. Athlete Welfare: Advocating for and protecting the rights and well-being of athletes, including their privacy and confidentiality in the anti-doping process.
10. Zero Tolerance: Adopting a strict zero-tolerance stance towards doping, and reporting any suspicious activity or attempts to undermine the principles and values of clean sport.
2. Respect: Demonstrating respect for fellow athletes, coaches, officials, and the sport itself by competing fairly and with sportsmanship.
3. Equality: Ensuring a level playing field for all athletes, regardless of their background, by refraining from doping and adhering to anti-doping regulations.
4. Health and Safety: Prioritizing the well-being and long-term health of athletes by avoiding the use of substances or methods that could harm their physical or mental health.
5. Transparency: Being open and honest about one's actions, including any medications or supplements taken, and cooperating fully with anti-doping authorities during testing and investigations.
6. Education: Continuously seeking knowledge and understanding of anti-doping rules and regulations to make informed choices and avoid unintentional violations.
7. Accountability: Taking personal responsibility for one's actions and choices, including the substances ingested or methods used, and accepting consequences for any anti-doping rule violations.
8. Fair Play: Competing with honor, following the rules of the sport, and accepting both victory and defeat with grace and humility.
9. Athlete Welfare: Advocating for and protecting the rights and well-being of athletes, including their privacy and confidentiality in the anti-doping process.
10. Zero Tolerance: Adopting a strict zero-tolerance stance towards doping, and reporting any suspicious activity or attempts to undermine the principles and values of clean sport.