OFFICIALS have been rather busy at the headquarters of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in Montreal these past few months. As next year’s Olympics in Athens heave into view, they have been racing to finalise what they hope will be the ultimate in anti-cheating weapons – the world’s first harmonised rules governing dope testing across all sports and countries.
It is no easy task. The regulations have to cover out-of-competition tests, exemptions for medicinal drugs, standards for labs to adhere to, and more. And to give the code clout a critical mass of sports organisations and governments has to be persuaded…
