Ask the Expert: Testing

Event date: 26 February 2026, 02:00 PM CET 

• Panellist: Richard Driscoll, Experienced Doping Control Officer and IDCO Trainer
• Moderator: Mairi Irvine, ITA Education Team
• Registration link: Webinar Registration – Zoom

Join the ITA for the second webinar of 2026 focused on Ask the Expert: Testing, featuring experienced Doping Control Officer and IDCO trainer Richard Driscoll. This session will provide an overview of the topic, along with practical insights and expert answers to your questions.

To make the most of this event, we encourage you to submit your questions in advance using the registration link by 16 February. We will address as many questions as possible during the live session, and there will also be dedicated time at the end for your live questions.

  Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding and engage with a leading expert in the field!

As always, we are pleased to deliver these webinars in English with simultaneous translation to four additional languages – Arabic, French, Russian, and Spanish.

Ask the Expert: Nutrition

Event date: Jan 29, 2026 02:00 PM CET

• Panellist: Professor Louise Burke, IOC Diploma Programme in Sports Nutrition and Australian Catholic University Director
• Moderator: Armando Urban, ITA Education Team
• Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3R6dBWBRT52FAolMlGlwTA

Clean sport education is a cornerstone for clean sport. As a strategy measure, education aims to empower athletes and others to play clean, and to encourage behaviours in line with the principles and values of clean sport.

As part of the ISU's commitment to clean sport, the IF Webinar Series is brought to you by the International Testing Agency (ITA), in conjunction with the ISU.

We are pleased to provide the Skating Family with access to a series of clean sport education webinars available on the IR`TA YouTube Channel

• These interactive one-hour sessions for athletes and Athlete Support Personnel have been designed to cover key anti-doping topics, and anti-doping rights and responsibilities. 

The webinars are delivered in English, with simultaneous translation into Arabic, French, Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Spanish, with automated translated captions enabled.

1. If you are on the road to Milano Cortina 2026 as an athlete or as Athlete Support Personnel, then this webinar is for you.

   

   
   

   In this session we will be joined by Matteo Vallini, ITA Head of International Federations and Major Events, and Damien Clivaz, ITA Managing Senior Legal Counsel, to cover and answer your questions on:

   • The Milano Cortina 2026 Anti-Doping Rules
   • Doping Control
   • Therapeutic Use Exemptions
   • Results management in the case of a positive tes

2. The goal is to empower you and your team to understand the rules and your responsibilities so you can focus on what you are in Milano Cortina to do — perform at your best.

   This webinar is delivered in English with simultaneous translation into four additional languages – Arabic, French, Russian, and Spanish – with automated translated captions available.

   • Event date: 10 December, 14:00 – 15:00 CET
   • Panellists:
     • Matteo Vallini, ITA Head of International Federations and Major Events
     • Damien Clivaz, ITA Managing Senior Legal Counsel
   • Moderator: Mairi Irvine, ITA Education Team
   • Registration link: Webinar Registration - Zoom

The International Skating Union (ISU), in partnership with the ITA, proudly rolled out its Pure as Ice campaign across the first half of the 2025/26 skating season, empowering young athletes and their teams with essential knowledge and practical tools to protect clean sport.

Pure as Ice Education Campaign 2023/24

https://isu-skating.com/news/empowering-young-skaters-through-anti-doping-education-highlights-of-the-2023-24-pure-as-ice-campaign/