KINGSTON, Jamaica Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia “Babsy” Grange will be travelling to Montreal, Canada this weekend for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Foundation B.
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Tributes pour in for retiring WADA Board member and Founding President Richard Pound
On 31 December 2020, the World Anti-Doping Agency s (WADA s) Founding President and longstanding advocate for clean sport, Richard Pound, came to the end of his final term on WADA s Foundation Board (Board), having served the Agency with distinction in various capacities since its inception in 1999.
The positive contribution made by Mr. Pound to the world of sport in general and anti-doping in particular cannot be overstated. A lawyer by profession, he was instrumental in the establishment of WADA nearly 22 years ago, serving for almost nine years as the Agency s first President. In that time, and against the odds, he oversaw the drafting and implementation of the World Anti-Doping Code (Code) which, for the first time, managed to harmonize the rules across sports and nations of the world. In what was a stellar athletic and sports administration career, that remains perhaps one of his greatest achi
WADA issues reminder as 2021 World Anti-Doping Code enters into force Sunday, 3 January 2021
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has issued a reminder to all stakeholders that the 2021 World Anti-Doping Code has now entered into force.
From Friday (January 1), the Code, new International Standards, and the Athletes Anti-Doping Rights Act came into force.
The documents, subject to a two-year stakeholder consultation process, were approved on November 7 2019 during WADA s World Conference on Doping in Sport in Katowice in Poland.
The 2021 Code, which follows on from previous versions that entered into effect in 2004, 2009 and 2015, includes a number of changes to global anti-doping policies, rules and regulations within anti-doping organisations (ADOs) around the world.