Doping Testing 2.0

Simple problem:
Danish Anti Doping Committees have trouble locating their athletes.

Complex Solution:
Online location registration applications.
As many athletes (most currently professional road cyclists) seem to have immense problems in explaining their whereabouts, using the internet could solve their problem. It may be as simple as a login at WADA giving the athlete a few basic input options:

Dear Doping Controllant,
In the next

I’ll be training in

If you need me, I can be found at this address:

Kind regards

… but drawing on existing social services such as Jaiku, Twitter, FaceBook, Plazes, or some sort of integration with GoogleMaps etc, etc could prove to be even more effective and easy to use. Surely not many of todays top athletes stay outside the reach of some form of online communication for extended periods of time.

What do you think?

Update:
It is already here: UK Sport Welcomes WADA’s Athlete Friendly Whereabouts Procedures.
…Will the Danish Anti Doping programme follow up on that? See current practice: Retningslinier om whereabouts (in danish).

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