World Anti-Doping Agency

international organization
Also known as: WADA

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doping regulations

  • Lance Armstrong
    In doping: Regulation

    …enforcing anti-doping rules include the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and individual sports federations. WADA oversees the World Anti-Doping Code, a set of regulations guiding the use of drugs in sports that was implemented in 2004 and has been adopted by various international sports organizations, including…

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Isinbayeva

  • Yelena Isinbayeva
    In Yelena Isinbayeva

    …at the request of the World Anti-Doping Agency, which claimed that she was hindering Russia’s attempts to comply with the requirements set forth by that agency.

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Olympic Games

  • Lighting the Olympic flame
    In Olympic Games: Doping and drug testing

    …practices, the IOC formed the World Anti-Doping Agency in 1999. There is now a long list of banned substances and a thorough testing process. Blood and urine samples are collected from athletes before and after competition and sent to a lab for testing. Positive tests for banned substances lead to…

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