Wada Research Paper

1.0 WADA and ASADA

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), established in 1999, is an international independent agency composed and funded equally by the sport movement and governments of the world. The organisation aims to include scientific research, education, development of anti-doping capacities, and monitor the World Anti-Doping Code (the document harmonizing anti-doping policies in all sports and all countries). WADA aims to create a world where all athletes can compete in a doping-free sporting environment.

ASADA, established in 2006, is an organisation very similar to that of WADA. Australia’s Sport Anti-Doping Authorities are the national anti-doping working to combat the use of doping in Australian sport. The organisation aims to develop

Although the current world record is 9.58 seconds set by Jamaican, Usain Bolt, the natural limit for a man sprinting the 100 metres seems to be about 9.7 seconds. “In 1988, Ben Johnson set a world record at an outstanding 9.79 seconds but was later caught doping. 2005 saw American Tim Montgomery, banned from the sport for doping after he ran 9.78 seconds in 2002. In 2006, Justin Gatlin, the defending 100-metre Olympic champion, was banned for doping three weeks after equalling the world record (9.77 seconds at the time). Later in 2009, Yohan Blake received a three-month ban for doping. Two years later, he became world champion in the 100-metre sprint and won a silver medal at the Olympics. He co-owns the second-fastest time in history alongside the recently banned Tyson Gay at 9.69 seconds. In 2011, Steve Mullings of Jamaica was hit with a lifetime ban following a positive test for a masking product after having run a personal best 9.8 seconds.” (The Conversation, 2013) In 2005, T Fahey said: “The winner will be the person with a combination of the genetic potential, training psychology and judgment. Elite athletic performance would be the result of human creativity and choice, not just people with the best genes.” Doping would allow the human body to exceed the expected