WADA not to publish Code compliance report - Hindu

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WADA not to publish Code compliance report
Hindu, India - Nov 24, 2008
In an anti-climactic end to an exercise lasting more than two years, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has decided not to publish the Code compliance report as scheduled on November 25.

Instead, WADA will wait till May next year to finalise a report on Code compliance based on the revised Code that will come into effect from January 1, 2009. The decision not to declare anything on non-compliance was based on a vote at the WADA Foundation Board and Executive Committee meeting in Montreal over the weekend. The Foundation Board members moved the resolution to stop the publication of the Code compliance report.

The meeting noted that most of the signatories had complied with the Code while a “small number of organisations” had not fulfilled the requirements, a WADA release stated on Monday.

The Code compliance report, the first such attempt since the WADA Code came into effect from January 1, 2004, was expected to expose many anti-doping agencies including international federations and National anti-doping bodies.

This is the second time in recent months that WADA has shown a reluctance to show the transparency expected of it.

Though the WADA observers at the Beijing Olympic Games reported that around half of participating nations had not submitted ‘whereabouts’ information on their athletes to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), WADA did not name those countries ...


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