WADA Foundation Board unanimously approves final round of governance reforms

WADA and the Commonwealth Games Federation deliver e-learning course for athletes and coaches ahead of 2022 Commonwealth Games

The CAS hearing in the Kamila Valieva matter has concluded

Contamination & Doping: Is The UFC's Approach To 'Reporting Limits' Fairer Than WADA's?

Published Thursday, 10 March 2022.

WADA statement on CAS award confirming the lifting of the provisional suspension of a ROC figure skater

Kamila Valieva doping case - IOC says they will initiate talks on minimum age limit at Olympics

WADA statement following CAS decision not to reinstate skater’s provisional suspension

WADA to lodge appeal in case of Russian Olympic Committee figure skater

LawInSport Weekly News Recap - 8 October

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UCI Statement concerning Marcin Polak

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that the Polish rider Marcin Polak has been notified today of an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF) for Erythropoietin (EPO)^[1] in a sample collected during an out-of-competition doping control conducted on 2 August 2021.

Teamwork is the key for WADA’s Independent Observers at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is full of teams. Hundreds of national teams, various squads of players for specific team events, individual athletes and their teams of coaches and entourage and even teams of organizers that are busy behind the scenes ensuring the Games run smoothly. And for the members of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) Independent Observer (IO) team, it is every bit as important that they work together as a cohesive unit in order to be effective in monitoring the anti-doping system in place during the Games.

The WADA-accredited Tokyo anti-doping laboratory: operating around the clock to safeguard the integrity of the Games

With the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games now fully underway, and the Paralympic Games soon to follow, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)-accredited Tokyo laboratory is operating twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to analyze athlete samples and safeguard the integrity of the Games.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Ad Hoc Division reinstates the provisional suspension of Swiss track and field athlete Alex Wilson with immediate effect

Sun Yang Eligible For 2024 Paris Olympics: WADA v Sun Yang & FINA - 2nd CAS Award

Published Thursday, 22 July 2021.

WADA’s Independent Observer Program – helping to ensure the integrity of anti-doping at major sporting events

In this latest edition of ‘Spotlight’, which keeps stakeholders up to date on the activities being carried out by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) team and its partners, we look at WADA’s Independent Observer (IO) Program that is carried out at major sporting events across the globe. Previous ‘Spotlight’ features are available on WADA’s website.

WADA signs memorandum of understanding with the Central European Anti-Doping Organization to collaborate on anti-doping program development

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Central European Anti-Doping Organization (CEADO) to collaborate on specific anti-doping program development activities, beginning with a project involving the Eastern Europe Regional Anti-Doping Organization (EERADO).

Statement from USADA CEO Travis T. Tygart on Testing for THC as Raised by the Sha’Carri Richardson Sanction Agreement Announcement

WORKING GROUP ON THE REVIEW OF WADA GOVERNANCE REFORMS

A small Working Group of governance experts was established by the WADA Executive Committee at its November 2020 meeting. The composition of this new Working Group on the Review of WADA Governance Reforms includes seven governance experts (two proposed by Governments, two by the Sport Movement, one independent Chair, and two expert athletes (nominated by WADA’s Athlete Committee). One of the athletes (Chelsey Gotell) was added to the Group in March 2021 following the decision of the Executive Committee in November 2020, that the Group could be expanded with an additional athlete, subject to an appropriate athlete expert being put forward by the WADA Athlete Committee. An essential part of the work of this Group will be to consult all stakeholders, including athletes and NADOs, using a wide-ranging consultation process in the same spirit as the one used for past World Anti-Doping Code reviews.

New WADA Audit praises UKAD as “extremely competent” and “high functioning”

In March this year, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) completed a regular audit of UK Anti-Doping’s (UKAD) practices and procedures.

The executive summary from the report can be accessed in the document below, and we have included more information on what a WADA audit entails here.

WADA strengthens global anti-doping system through re-build of its Anti-Doping Administration and Management System

In this latest edition of ‘Spotlight’, which keeps stakeholders up to date on the activities being carried out by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) team and its partners, we look at WADA’s Anti-Doping Administration Management System (ADAMS), and how it is making athletes’ lives easier and the work of the anti-doping community more effective. Previous ‘Spotlight’ features are available on WADA’s website.

WADA launches ‘DCO Central’ – a paperless solution for secure and fast collection of doping control data

WADA welcomes decision of Swiss court on Alex Schwazer case

WADA statement on the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy report to Congress

UKAD Statement on Larry Olubamiwo

WADA publishes global testing figures showing return to normal levels despite COVID-19

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is pleased to note that the number of samples collected by Anti-Doping Organizations (ADOs) around the world is quickly returning to normal despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The latest testing figures, outlined in the tables below, reveal that in March 2021, 22,649 samples were collected by 145 ADOs, the highest number of samples recorded since the pandemic started in March 2020.

WADA publishes 2021 Code Compliance Annual Report

Decision rendered by the CAS ADD - Chijindu Ujah (athletics)

Decision rendered by the Anti-Doping Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS ADD)

WADA removes three National Anti-Doping Organizations from compliance ‘watchlist’

Nigeria's Okagbare banned for 10 years by AIU for doping at Tokyo Olympics

The CAS Ad hoc Division publishes the Arbitral Award issued in the arbitration procedures relating to Kamila Valieva

The CAS Ad hoc Division declines to impose a provisional suspension on the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva

WADA revokes approval of Moscow Laboratory

Yesterday, by way of circulatory vote, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) Executive Committee (ExCo) endorsed a WADA Disciplinary Committee recommendation to revoke the ‘approved’ status of the National Anti-Doping Laboratory (MSU) in Moscow (Moscow Laboratory) to carry out blood sample analysis exclusively for the purpose of the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP), due to non-compliances with the International Standard for Laboratories (ISL) and its Code of Ethics.

CAS Bulletin 2021/1

A Summary Of CAS Decisions At The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Published Thursday, 19 August 2021.

BLESSING OKAGBARE OF NIGERIA PROVISIONALLY SUSPENDED AFTER TESTING POSITIVE FOR HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE

WADA leadership engages Clean Sport partners during Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) President, Witold Bańka; Vice-President, Yang Yang; and Director General, Olivier Niggli, spent time in Tokyo last week and this week to attend the 2020 Olympic Games; and, have taken advantage of the opportunity to meet face-to-face with a significant number of WADA’s Clean Sport partners.

WADA partners with the Japan Anti-Doping Agency to promote the Play True message at the Tokyo Games

In the lead up to, and during the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is partnering with the Japan Anti-Doping Agency (JADA) and other stakeholders to deliver a strong anti-doping program and promote the Play True message. As the host National Anti-Doping Organization (NADO) of the Tokyo Games, JADA plays an integral role in coordinating the anti-doping program in partnership with the International Olympic Committee, the International Testing Agency (ITA), the International Paralympic Committee the Tokyo Organizing Committee and WADA.

WADA statement on German broadcaster ARD documentary

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) notes the contents of the 16 July 2021 documentary by German broadcaster, ARD, which makes a number of statements regarding the possibility of prohibited substances being passed through the skin of athletes via a process of sabotage.

WADA Postpones Global Education Conferences In Australia And France To 2022 And 2024

Nevada State Athletic Commission will no longer discipline boxers, MMA fighters for marijuana use

WADA encourages continued collaboration in anti-doping among Governments of Asia

WADA releases new education program for ‘Talented Athletes’

Today, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) releases a new education program entitled ‘ADEL for Talented Athletes’ which is available on the Agency’s Anti-Doping Education and Learning Platform (ADEL).

This new education program, specifically targeting ‘Talented Athletes’, is the sixth program that has been made available for athletes on ADEL. In line with the International Standard for Education (ISE), this program provides a solution for Anti-Doping Organizations (ADOs) wishing to educate athletes at the ‘talented level’ as defined and recommended within WADA’s Guidelines for Education.

U.S. Paralympic Track & Field Athlete David Prince Accepts Sanction for Anti-Doping Rule Violation

USADA announced today that David Prince, of Bradenton, Fla., an athlete in the sport of Paralympic track and field, has accepted a 12-month suspension for an anti-doping rule violation.

Prince, 37, tested positive for ostarine (enobosarm), as well as LGD-4033 (ligandrol) and its metabolite di-hydroxy-LGD-4033, as the result of samples collected out of competition on September 27, 2020, October 15, 2020, and November 11, 2020. Ostarine and LGD‐4033 are Non-Specified Substances in the class of Anabolic Agents and are prohibited at all times under the USADA Protocol for Olympic and Paralympic Movement Testing, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee National Anti-Doping Policy, and the International Paralympic Committee Anti-Doping Code, all of which have adopted the World Anti-Doping Code (the Code) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited List.

Sports Disputes and Disciplinary Procedures - the Year in review 2020/21

Published Wednesday, 19 May 2021.

USOPC AAC and USADA Joint Statement and Summary of Recommendations: ONDCP Report on WADA Governance Reform

WADA welcomes significant additional investment from the Government of Canada

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is grateful to the Government of Canada for its additional contribution of USD 748,390 (CAD 936,108) to WADA, which will be dedicated primarily to the Agency’s scientific research and intelligence and investigations (I&I) activities. In addition, around USD 55,000 of the contribution has been earmarked for education.

USOPC AAC and USADA Joint Statement and Summary of Recommendations: ONDCP Report on WADA Governance Reform

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee Athletes’ Advisory Council (USOPC AAC) and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) welcome the latest reportreleased by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) today into the state of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Governance Reform efforts. ONDCP issued the report as requested by the United States Congress as a condition of continued U.S. funding of WADA.

Michael McNamee new Chair of WADA's Ethics Expert Advisory Group

WADA imposes analytical testing restriction on the Bucharest Laboratory

Effective 1 May 2021 and for a period of up to six months, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has imposed an analytical testing restriction (ATR) on the Romanian Doping Control Laboratory in Bucharest (Bucharest Laboratory) as it relates to the Gas Chromatography / Combustion / Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (GC/C/IRMS) analytical method.