ATHLETE NOTICEBOARD

Athlete365 chance to earn money with Airbnb

WADA’s Athlete Committee webinar series starting 3 July 2020

IOC’s Athlete365 webinar series

Prevention on Competition Manipulation

Athlete updates on Tokyo Olympics in light of the Coronavirus

Guidebook for clubs for a successful dual career

Athlete365 Business Accelerator

Career transition for athletes can sometimes be a critical moment, a sports career does not last forever and daily life after competition can change considerably but this period can also offer new challenges. The International Olympic Committee has created a programme to help athletes entrepreneurial dreams come true, so click here to find out more or here to access the course. 

Safeguarding

JCM presentation on harassment and abuse and the development of FISA’s policy – click here

Follow the IOC online course and share with your community – click here

Other IOC resources regarding harassment and abuse – click here and here

IOC Competition Manipulation Toolbox

Athletes’ Declaration has been adopted by the IOC

Information on Filming at World Rowing Events

WADA Anti-Doping E-Learning

Reminders for Racing*

It is a rule (FISA Rule 63) that a crew, when warming up or cooling down, stop for races that come past. It is important to ensure that it is fair for all crews racing. If you do not observe this rule, an umpire can take action to give you a yellow card. Additional penalties may be given for repeated offences.

Please do not throw plastic drink bottles into the water at the start of your race. Rowing is a ‘Clean Water’ sport and FISA takes its responsibility to the environment seriously. Please pass any unwanted water bottles to people on the start pontoon.

FISA umpires will be more strict on race uniforms. Umpires will have photos of a country’s official team uniform circulated to them to check the proper uniform is worn.

During racing and victory ceremonies, athletes must not carry or display any advertising which is not permitted under the Rules (Rule 50 and Appendix 5). The penalty for doing so may be relegation to last place or exclusion from the event. Tattoos and other ‘body advertising’ are not permitted.

*Please consult the FISA Rule Book for the complete rules. 

The Athlete Commission

For more information on your athlete commission representatives, click here

The Athlete Commission is here to help you as athletes. If you have questions, comments or concerns, please email:athletecommission.fisa@gmail.com

New Anti-Doping Measures

WADA regularly updates what is and is not prohibited in the world of sport. We urge you to check all substances through the WADA website, and be aware that newly banned substances such as Hypoxia-Inducible Factor (HIF) stabilzers and activators (e.g. xenon and argon) (prohibited from 1/9/2014) are used in ‘altitude tents’ that you may sleep in or ‘altitude rooms’ you may train in.

Every athlete is responsible for his/her medication. Please check with your team doctor or visit your NADA website to find out about banned substances. Here is a short video clip that may be helpful for you: http://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/35759241

Pre-Competition Health Screening

FISA works to ensure the safety of rowers. One of the ways to do this is to reduce the risk of “Sudden Cardiovascular Death in Sport” in our sport. FISA has recently introduced the IOC recommended Pre-Competition Health Screening.

The process involves completing a questionnaire, submitting it to your doctor and undertaking the exam and diagnostic test.

This has been for rowers competing at the Junior World Championships in 2014, but from 2015 all rowers competing at the World Championships, the Under 23 World Championships and the Junior World Championships are required to have done this. 

About .. the Fairness Committee

Weather can have a major influence on the conditions for the athletes at rowing regattas. This applies to any rowing course in the world, whether on a natural lake or on a custom built regatta course.

When weather creates unfair conditions for the rowers, the FISA rules call for a means to attempt to restore, as much as possible, the fairness of the competition. For each FISA world-level event, the FISA Executive Committee establishes a Fairness Committee according to Rule 71.

This Committee consists of three people with appropriate experience and ability to take the appropriate measures if the weather creates unfair or unrowable racing conditions. The Fairness Committee has the duty to determine if the weather has created, or is about to create, unfair or unrowable conditions. It is then their responsibility to identify and adopt what they determine to be the most appropriate action among several alternatives listed in the Bye-Law to Rule 71.

The Fairness Committee studies carefully how wind effects the racing course. They may identify and use a range of tools and information to carry out their role effectively and have a range of strategies to ensure fairness. For example they can recommend which lanes are used, change the time of racing or, in extreme circumstances, recommend a time trial format to replace a round of racing.

The Fairness Committee exists to ensure that racing is as fair as possible for you.

Advertisement Rules

Please be aware of the advertisement rules at all times. Even small breaches of the rules (including during the race and on the victory ceremony stage) can result in a crew being relegated to last place in their race.  It can also damage the cooperation between sponsors and the Organising Committee or FISA. In the long term this affects the whole rowing community and for example, might make running regattas  more costly which should be avoided.

So please check before you go on the water and also before you go to the victory ceremony. Thank you for your cooperation. Read the entire Rule 50 and the Appendix 5 Bye-Laws.