World Anti-Doping Agency

February 22, 2025 1:24 PM

World Anti-Doping Agency drops lawsuit against US counterpart

The World Anti-Doping Agency said on Friday it has dropped its lawsuit against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in a dispute involving 23 Chinese swimmers who failed drug tests in the lead-up to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. News of the positive tests led to a war of words between the two agencies and an investigation by Swiss prosecutor Eric Cottier, who determined that WADA had not shown "favoritism or complacency" toward China. The swimmers were not punished after WADA accepted Chinese authorities' e...

February 18, 2025 11:23 AM

Djokovic claims the majority of players feel ‘favouritism’ in Sinner’s doping ban

Serbian tennis great Novak Djokovic has claimed that the majority of players are not happy with the way the whole process is handled in the case of world no.1 Jannik Sinner's three-month doping ban. Sinner has reached a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) which will see the Italian serve a three-month ban. WADA has accepted that Sinner did not intend to cheat and that his exposure to clostebol did not provide any performance-enhancing benefit and took place without his knowledg...

November 18, 2024 1:40 PM

India to host anti-doping training in collaboration with World Anti-Doping Agency and Japan’s support

India will host a 4-day Global Learning and Development Framework (GLDF) Results Management Training in collaboration with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in New Delhi from November 19 to November 22. The training, which is being organized by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) India will be in collaboration with WADA and with the support from the Japan Sports Agency (JSA) and Japan Anti-Doping Agency (JADA). The four-day training see participation of anti-doping professionals and exper...