WADA publishes Independent Observer Team report for Rio 2016 Paralympic Games
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) publishes the report of the Independent Observer (IO) team on the anti-doping program of the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016. In accordance with the World Anti-Doping Code (the Code), WADA is invited by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to send an IO team to the Paralympic Games.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) publishes the report of the Independent Observer (IO) team on the anti-doping program of the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016. In accordance with the World Anti-Doping Code (the Code), WADA is invited by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to send an IO team to the Paralympic Games.
The role of this team is to help build trust among athletes and the public about the quality, effectiveness and reliability of the IPC's anti-doping program for the Games, provide feedback and report “In real time” of possible aspects of the program to be improved, and to make recommendations in its post-Games report on improvements that can be made in future editions of the Games.
“The anti-doping program, which was implemented and supervised by the IPC, has produced several positive results under difficult circumstances in Rio,” said Michael Petrou, President of the OI team. The IPC deserves praise for the anti-doping program it deployed at the Games, and in particular for the many best practices it has implemented that could serve as an example to other anti-doping organizations and organizers of major events. . "
The IM team monitored all aspects of the anti-doping program in Rio, including the planning of the distribution of Testing, selection of Athletes to be tested, Athlete notification, Sample collection procedure, the authorization procedure for therapeutic use, the chain of custody and results management.
As is the case after all missions of the IO team, the report contains a series of recommendations for operational measures or policies that could help the IPC and future local organizing committees to improve the Games anti-doping program. Paralympics and continue to protect clean athletes.
