World Anti-Doping Agency

…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…

…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.

…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…