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9.11 Status during Ineligibility
19.11.1 Prohibition against participation during Ineligibility
No Athlete or other Person who has been declared Ineligible may, during the period of Ineligibility, participate in any capacity in a Competition or activity (other than authorised anti-doping education or rehabilitation programs) authorised or organised by any Signatory, Signatory’s member organisation or a club or other member organisation of a Signatory’s member organisation, the ASC, their IF, their NSO or its Members, or in Competitions authorised or organised by any professional league or any international-level or national-level Event organisation. This would include, for example:
43 This Article shall not apply where the period of Ineligibility already has been reduced under Article 19.6.4.
44 An Athlete’s voluntary acceptance of a Provisional Suspension is not an admission by the Athlete and shall not be used in any way as to draw an adverse inference against the Athlete.
a practising or training with any national, state or club team or scholarship squad
b acting as a coach or sport official
c selection in any representative team or scholarship squad
d competing in any Competitions or Events
e receiving, directly or indirectly, funding or assistance from the ASC
f use of official ASC facilities, and
g holding any position with the ASC.
An Athlete or other Person subject to a period of Ineligibility longer than four (4) years may, after completing four (4) years of the period of Ineligibility, participate in local sport events in a sport other than the sport in which the Athlete or other Person committed the anti-doping rule violation, but only so long as the local sport event is not at a level that could otherwise qualify such Athlete or other Person directly or indirectly to compete in, or accumulate points toward, a national championship or International Event.
An Athlete or other Person subject to a period of Ineligibility shall remain subject to Testing.45
45 For example, an Ineligible Athlete cannot participate in a training camp, exhibition or practice organised by the ASC or a NSO or other member organisation of a NSO. Further, an Ineligible Athlete may not compete in a non-Signatory professional league (for example, the US National Hockey League or the US National Basketball Association), Events organised by a non-Signatory International Event organisation, or a non-Signatory national-level event organisation without triggering the Consequences set forth in Article 19.11.2. Sanctions in one sport will also be recognised by other sports (see Article 23).
19.11.2 Violation of the prohibition of participation during Ineligibility
Where an Athlete or other Person who has been declared Ineligible violates the prohibition against participation during Ineligibility described in Article 19.11.1, the results of such participation shall be Disqualified and the period of Ineligibility that was originally imposed shall start
over again as of the date of the violation. The new period of Ineligibility may be reduced under Article 19.6.2 if the Athlete or other Person establishes that he or she bears No Significant Fault or Negligence for violating the prohibition against participation. The determination of whether an Athlete or other Person has violated the prohibition against participation, and whether a reduction under Article 19.6.2 is appropriate, shall be made by the Anti-Doping Organisation whose results management led to the imposition of the initial period of Ineligibility.46
19.11.3 Withholding of financial support during Ineligibility
In addition, for any anti-doping rule violation not involving a reduced sanction for Specified Substances as described in Article 19.5, some or all sport-related financial support or other sport-related benefits received by such Person will be withheld by the ASC.
19.12 Reinstatement Testing
As a condition to regaining eligibility at the end of a specified period of Ineligibility, an Athlete must, during any period of Provisional Suspension or Ineligibility, make him or herself available for Out-of-Competition Testing by ASADA and any other
Anti-Doping Organisation having Testing jurisdiction, and must, if requested, provide current and accurate whereabouts information as provided in Article 10. If an Athlete subject to a period of Ineligibility retires from sport and is removed from Registered Testing Pools and later seeks reinstatement, the Athlete shall not be eligible for reinstatement until the Athlete has notified ASADA (in accordance with Article 11.2.4) and has been subject to Out-of-Competition Testing for a period of time equal to the longer of the period set forth in Article 11.2.6 or the period of Ineligibility remaining as of the date the Athlete had retired.
Hang in there Jakey! You hope they've been ready for this and he has a nice thick dossier of what the club wants him to do training and rehab wise. I wonder if he can train with the Essendon banned players - I'm sure they'll be working as a group.
