Ottawa – July 15, 2025 – The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) reminds athletes in the Registered Testing Pool (RTP) to be diligent with filing and updating their whereabouts information in ADAMS.
Over the past few years, the CCES has noted a concerning increase in potential anti-doping rule violations related to whereabouts failures.
As a reminder, the CCES must pursue an anti-doping rule violation for whereabouts failures against an athlete who accumulates any combination of three missed tests and/or filing failures within a 12-month rolling period. The failures could be issued by either the CCES or the athlete’s international federation.
A missed test is a failure by the athlete to be available and accessible for testing at the location and time specified in the 60-minute time slot for that day. The athlete must be present at that location for the full 60 minutes.
Note: While Doping Control Officers may call the athlete in the last five minutes of the attempt, it is not a requirement that they do so, so athletes should not rely on a phone call to alert them to an attempt.
A filing failure is pursued if an athlete doesn’t submit the whereabouts information by the submission deadline or provides inaccurate information.
To help ensure compliance with their whereabouts requirements, RTP athletes are reminded to:
- Set calendar reminders for the quarterly whereabouts submission deadlines.
- Download the Athlete Central App for easy updates on the go.
- Enable notifications in the Athlete Central App related to their 60-minute time slot.
- Click “Submit” when entering their whereabouts information via the ADAMS website, located at the top left of the page.
- Click “Next Quarter” on the home screen of the Athlete Central App to ensure that all their whereabouts requirements have been met, as indicated by a green checkmark to the right of each requirement, then click “Submit.”
- Review all information for accuracy.
- Update information promptly as plans change (e.g., change in overnight accommodation, training location, travel).
- Include competitions and/or training camps in which they will be participating and update those entries as applicable.
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About the CCES
The CCES is an independent, national, not-for profit organization that works to protect the integrity of and manage unethical issues in Canadian sport. Through the administration of its programs, including the Canadian Anti-Doping Program and the Canadian Safe Sport Program, the CCES strives to ensure sport is fair, safe, accessible, and inclusive for all Canadians. The CCES acknowledges funding, in part, from the Government of Canada. For more information, visit cces.ca, follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, or X.