The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) is calling on all its members to participate in a Clean Sport Education webinar, which is dedicated to and reserved for WBSC Members only.
The webinar, which is run with the help of the International Testing Agency (ITA), is scheduled for Thursday, 7 December, at 14:00 Lausanne Time (CET). It will provide an overview of anti-doping education and explain its importance in supporting athletes to compete and stay clean.
At the end of the session, WBSC Athletes' Commission Member and ITA Education Ambassador Randolph Oduber will answer questions live.
All members are expected to participate and share the knowledge gathering with their athletes.
The webinar will be delivered in English, with simultaneous translation into two additional languages – French (Français) and Spanish (Español).
All attendees will receive a PDF of the webinar presentation, including links to the resources covered.
The ITA and the WBSC have been collaborating since January 2020 with increasing delegation to the ITA for the independent management of different areas of its anti-doping programme.
The ITA's mission is to manage anti-doping programmes for International Federations and Major Event Organizers. Educational webinars are a relevant part of ITA's activity. They include monthly webinars reserved for partners and education webinars for selected international federations, including the WBSC.
Under an agreement reached in June 2022, the ITA develops and manages the long-term storage of samples for the WBSC, thus allowing them to be re-tested later using enhanced analytical methods or based on new information.
Another new part of this partnership extension is the use of ITA’s dedicated intelligence & investigations capacity, which will complement existing analytical and non-analytical methods of detecting anti-doping rule violations for the WBSC.
The WBSC also adheres to REVEAL, the ITA's doping reporting platform.
