• Know more about sanctioned athletes;
• Know what sanctioned athletes experience, struggle with and what helps them to manage the situation;
• Fill the gap of currently lacking (mandatory by ISE) education programmes for sanctioned athletes
• Develop bespoke education materials (including self-care guidance) for sanctioned athletes
• Support the constant international and national efforts of different stakeholders to enhance the quality of anti-doping education as a means of prevention by adding the perspective of sanctioned athletes to it
• Formulate practical recommendations and actionable plans
• Assess whether sanctioned athletes’ reintegration is possible and if so, develop relevant sports policy in this regard
• Know and anticipate barriers to positive penalty option to mitigate against such barriers while respecting the concerns of the clean sport community
GIVE VOICE TO STIGMATIZED GROUP OF ATHLETES
SUPPORT THE ACCESSIBILITY OF GOOD PRACTICE EXAMPLES
WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY TO FIND EDUCATION SOLUTIONS
GENERATE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF PRACTICES, POLICIES AND SYSTEMS IN EDUCATION
1) Give a voice to sanctioned athletes;
2) Explore the emotions and feelings of clean athletes with respect to reintegrating sanctioned athletes;
3) Develop an informed education programme for sanctioned athletes;
4) Develop education resources to enhance current clean sport education with a focus on critical thinking, openness, and tolerance;
5) Co-create a policy recommendation together with the clean sport community that relates to Good Governance in the realm of reintegrating sanctioned athletes;
6) As such, forge a mutually beneficial collaboration between stakeholder groups and European (associated) partners, from the start which will ensure that the outcomes are both practically relevant and useful, as well as culturally and ecologically valid. Additionally, the dissemination of the training material is secured by involving the responsible practitioners from the start;
7) Bring together prominent anti-doping researchers in Europe but further include athletes as research assistants, junior researcher and research students, as well as practitioners from the frontline of anti-doping and policy makers;
8) Envisage to serve as a launchpad for establishing a network of trained athlete co-researchers and the training material to train interested athletes. These athletes will enhance the capability of anti-doping and sport organisations to carry out research and build research evidence in support for their daily work outside of the TALE project;
9) Use films as research outputs to supplement traditional dissemination strategies via peer reviewed publications and conference presentations.
TALE® - 2024 • Parts of the project are co-funded by WADA
