Renato Canova wrote:
For answering to one question about the antidoping tests of Sondre Moen, in 2018 he had the following tests :
* Jan 25 : Test in Iten (Blood and Urine) - Testing Authority (TA) : IAAF-AIU -
Sample Collection Authority : IDTM (International Doping Tests) - Lab for analysis : STOCKHOLM
* Mar 9 : Test in Iten (Blood and Urine) - TA : ADNO (Antidoping Norway) -
Sample Collection Authority : ADAK (Antidoping Kenya) - Lab : BLOEMFONTEIN (SAF)
* Mar 14 : Test in Iten (Blood and Urine) - TA : IAAF-AIU
SCA : IDTM - Lab for Analysis : STOCKHOLM
* Apr 6 : Test in Iten (Blood and Urine) - TA : ADNO
SCA : ADAK - Lab for Analysis : BLOEMFONTEIN
May 31 : Test in Robassomero (Italy) (Blood and Urine) - TA : IAAF-AIU
SCA : IDTM - Lab for Analysis : LAUSANNE (SUI)
Jun 6 : Test in Oslo (Blood and Urine) - TA : ADNO
SCA : ADNO - Lab for Analysis : OSLO
Jun 13 : Test in Robassomero (Italy) (Blood and Urine) - TA : IAAF - AIU
SCA : CLEARIDIUM A/S - Lab for Analysis : ROME
* Jul 29 : Test in Sestriere (Italy) (Blood and Urine) - TA : IAAF - AIU
SCA : CLEARIDIUM A/S - Lab for Analysis : ROME
So, from the 1st of January, Sondre had 8 blood tests and 11 tests for Urine only (I didn't put them in the list).
The tests with * are during training period in altitude.
How you can see, there are several agencies testing the athletes : IAAF - AIU (Authority Integrity Unit), the National Agencies (ADNO for Norway, ADAK for Kenya) and in some case, because of the big number of athletes to test in the world, there are PRIVATE AGENCIES which have agreement with WADA (This is the case of Clearidium in Italy).
We can find the same situation with the best Kenyans. The most part of tests are organized by IAAF-AIU (including all the MANDATORY tests for Kenyans and Ethiopians competing as invited athletes in the Major Marathons, that have a budget for testing the athletes and pay the cost of tests, travels and accommodation for the testers), some directly from ADAK, that normally is responsible for collecting the samples.
All the athletes in top 30 in the world, in every event, must inform IAAF about their stay EVERY DAY. They can chose a "window" of one hour every day, where they need to be found at the address they gave, otherwise there is a "miss test" if the officials go to the athlete's address and don't find him/her.
Since the most part of Kenyan athletes chose the time between 8pm and 9pm as 'window" (because is the only time they are almost sure to be at home or in the camp), testers go to test the athletes at any time of the day (so, out of the rule) because Kenyan in whereabout are so many that, respecting the time of the window, practically couldn't be possible to carry out too many tests. This means that the most part of athletes could refuse to be tested at the time used by the officials, but normally don't do this, accepting the test at any time of the day.
From 2016, the average number of tests for the Biological Passport (so, with blood) in one year can vary, for the top Kenyan athletes, from a minimum of 6 to a maximum of 10, the most part under the Testing Authority of IAAF-AIU, while about 40% of the tests are carried out by ADAK.
IAAF-AIU also in the past sent a pool of testers in African Countries for testing the top athletes, not national, there for training. This means that the idea of some LR poster (athletes going Africa for escaping tests) is based on their absolutely ignorance about procedures, reality and numbers, like the idea that in the past Kenyans didn't have blood tests.
There was effectively a small number of blood tests from 2010 (I remember 3 times for Mosop, 5 times for Florence Kiplagat, 3 times for Jairus Birech, 2 times for Irene Cheptai among the others, number that in 6 years is not very high), but to say there the tests didn't exist is not true, and now the situation is very much different for everybody trains in Kenya, both domestic or foreigner top athletes.