No.1 The official newsletter of the World Anti-Doping Agency – February 2002 Play true! The slogan "play true" has been chosen to incarnate the principal values of WADA. It stands for the universal spirit of sports practiced without artifice and in full respect of the established rules. All over the world, WADA’s members, staff and consultants are performing their duties with this slogan in mind. They practice these values on a daily basis, whether it is in the framework of the major undertaking of preparing the World Anti-Doping Code, out-of-competition testing, the awareness programmes or any of the other areas of the activities described in this newsletter. Henceforth, "WADA news", is to become a regular highlight giving you the opportunity to learn more about the life, the achievements and the projects of WADA. Moreover, since the athletes, the International Fe d e r ations and the countries are themselves WAD A ’ s Mr Richard W.Pound, Q.C., WADA Chairman stakeholders, the newsletter is also largely devoted to their concerns. Very soon the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games will be beginning in Salt Lake City. Naturally WADA will be present and everyone will be able to measure the extent of WADA’s achievements since Sydney and Inside: as well as its first steps in the arena of the world’s great international sports events. Editorial: Play true! 1 All the work accomplished in the last two years has WADA in brief 2 been made possible by the essential support of the Glossary 3 International Olympic Committee, which we wish to Doping control 4 thank here. Today, WADA is about to shoulder fully the responsibility of an organisation with a unique Awareness programme 6 p a r t n e rship structure, financed jointly by the Independent Observers 8 Governments and the Sports Movement, as equal National Anti-Doping Organisations 10 partners. Naturally, this crucial stage has not failed to 13 give rise to a debate within WADA, which some will World Anti-Doping Code certainly consider inevitable in the light of the magnitude Interview 16 of the tasks ahead. Let us however make sure that neither Sports Movement 20 this vital cooperation nor the very specific missions you Please contact us! + Schedule 22 are about to discover as you peruse this newsletter are jeopardised, missions which are the key to the success of our battle for a doping-free sport. It is imperative that the stakeholders “play true” together! Richard W. Pound, Q.C., WADA Chairman play true WADA in brief What is WADA? The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is a worldwide organisation, which was created in November 1999, in order to promote and coordinate the international fight against doping in sport. WADA is a Foundation under Swiss Law with an equal number of representatives from the Olympic Movement and the Public Authorities. WADA’s activities can also be consulted in detail on its website: www.wada-ama.org Where ? WADA structure Av . du Tri b u n a l - F é d é r al 34, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland <The Foundation Board (34 Members) Phone: (41 - 21) 351 02 25 The supreme decision-making body of WADA, Fax: (41 - 21) 329 15 05 chaired by Mr Richard W. Pound, Q.C., IOC E-mail : [email protected] Member, includes 17 Members from the Since its creation, WADA has been located tem- Olympic Movement and 17 Members from porarily in Lausanne, Switzerland. In August the Public Authorities 2001, WADA’s Foundation Board decided by a – Olympic Movement: vote to locate the permanent headquarters of - International Olympic Committee (IOC): 4 the Agency in Montreal, Canada. – Association of National Olympic Committees A Project Team has been set up to manage the (A N O C ): 4 relocation process including the various aspects – Association of Summer arising from the transition (e.g. lease agreements, Olympic International Federations (ASOIF): 3 office furnishing, staff and families relocation, – General Association of International legal matters, etc…). Sports Federations (GAISF): 1 – Association of International Olympic Winter WADA is planning to begin its operations in its Sports Federations (AIOWF) : 1 new office located in the Montreal Stock – IOC Athletes Commission: 4 Exchange Tower, Square Victoria, by Spring 2002. – Public Authorities: Contact: Shannan Withers, Project Manager, – Member States of the European Union: 2 [email protected] – Council of Europe: 2 – Africa: 3 – the Americas: 4 Who is financing WADA ? – Asia: 4 Since its foundation, WADA has been – Oceania: 2 financed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), including a US$ 14.3 million <The Executive Committee (11m e m b e r s) budget for the year 2001. From 2002 onward s , Re p r esenting the Foundation Board structures: this budget (US$ 18 million for 2002) will be for the day-to-day management s h a red equally on a 50/50 basis by its two and administ r ation of the Agency, the performance constituent stakeholders, the Olympic of all its activities and the management of its Movement and the Public Authorities. pro p e r t y Mr Harri Syväsalmi, WADA Director General 2 <The Advisory Committees Glossary Ad d re s s ing WADA’s main concerns, with their A brief presentation of some WADA key stakeholders subcommittees and working groups: and partners in the fight against doping. – Ethics and Education Committee IADA, International Anti-Doping Arrangement Chairman: Dr Donald Vereen IPT, International Project Teams – Current subcommittees and working groups: ISDC, International Standard for Doping Control Athlete Passport, Editorial Group – Finance and Administration Committee The International Anti-Doping Arrangement (IADA) Chairman: Mr Craig Reedie is a multi-government alliance committed to co- op e r atively promote and pursue anti-doping in sport – Health, Medical and Research Committee (c u r r ent signatories : Australia, Canada, Denmark, Chairman: Prof. Arne Ljungqvist Finland, New Zealand, Norway, The Netherlands, – Cu r r ent subcommittee: List of Prohibited Substances Sweden and the United Kingdom). Last June, WAD A and Methods and IADA ratified an agreement to develop three – Legal Committee key projects: Chairman: Mr David Howman advancing the ISDC from its current status as an – Standards and Harmonisation < Chairman: Mr George Walker Organisation for International Standardisation (ISO) Publicly Available Specification (ISO PAS 18873) to a – Current subcommittees and working groups: Laboratory Accreditation, World Anti-Doping Code full ISO standard by December 2002. This project is being led by an IADA-WADA Working Group and 16 permanent staff from 8 different countries working involves Standards Australia as technical consultant, out of the Agency's headquarters support this structure. as well as a broad reference group of stakeholders. Once WADA is fully operational in Montreal next year, The ISDC project is being co-ordinated with the the number of permanent staff is expected to be about development of the new World Anti-Doping Code. 30 people. <development of guidelines for application by certifi- cation agencies performing audits of organisations – Harri Syväsalmi, Director General implementing the ISDC requirements. These – Rune Andersen, Director, Standards and Harmonisation Certification Guidelines have been drafted, and it – Olivier Niggli, attorney, Legal Affairs Director is recommended that they should be adopted as – Dr Angela J. Schneider, Director, Education and Ethics “Interim Guidelines” until the full standard and the – Casey Wade, Director new World Anti-Doping Code are completed. – Dr Alain Garnier, Medical Consultant <the conduct of an International Project Team – Rob Koehler, Senior Manager, Standards (IPT) programme designed to assist participating and Harmonisation anti-doping organisations with implementing the – Isabelle Tornare, Communication Manager best practices prescribed in the ISDC. – Stacy Spletzer, Project Manager The WADA/IADA Taskforce has developed a regional – Jennifer Ebermann, Project Manager symposium programme in order to provide informa- – Françoise Dagouret, Project Manager, Newsletter tion about the IPTs, the ISDC, and WADA projects – Regula Menotti, Accounting Manager and priorities. A main objective of the symposiums is – Shannan Withers, Project Manager, the subsequent development of a customised IPT for WADAHeadquarters Relocation the participants in each region. The first symposium – Christine Gueissaz, Executive Assistant was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in – Chloé Christopoulos, Administrative Assistant November 2001. The third International Project – Sibylle Villard, Administrative Assistant Team (IPT 3) was also launched in late November for the following countries: Switzerland, Poland, Iran, Ireland and Greece. WADA is providing financial and collaborative support for all of these initiatives. Contact: Casey Wade, Director The 17th floor of the [email protected] Montreal Stock Exchange Tower will host WADA headquarters 3 Doping control Wada worldwide doping control programme WADA, which has been established as an independent doping control body, has introduced a world- wide testing program. It has reached contractual agreements with International Federations (IFs) to conduct out-of-competition doping control in addition to their own procedures; this program is in ac c o r dance with the International Standards for Doping Control (ISDC) and ISO 9002 certification. In order to facilitate the effective delivery of this initiative WADA has appointed Drug Free Sport Consortium (DFSC)* to develop, conduct and manage its testing program. DFSC is allowed to partner with other organisations (e.g., National Anti-Doping Organisations - NADOs - or service providers in the doping control field) to assist DFSC in providing the sample collection service, and with IOC accredited laboratories for the sample analysis. * DFSC consists of the following Agencies: Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) Australian Sports Drug Agency (ASDA) Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (NIF) All Winter and Summer Olympic Fed e r ations have signed an agreement with WAD A to con d u c t tes ting in their sports, except FIFA.