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Notwithstanding a number of issues and challenges highlighted in the Report, the IO team was generally satisfied with the end-to-end doping control arrangements put in place for the Games and congratulate all concerned on the considerable investments, efforts and opportunities that were seized upon to protect clean sport.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read more from WADA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wada-ama.org\/en\/media\/news\/2018-05\/wada-publishes-independent-observer-team-report-from-the-pyeongchang-2018-olympic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2000, the World Anti-Doping Agency has sent a team of observers to major events &#8220;with the aim of reinforcing confidence in athletes and the public as to the quality,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":309715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[67830,59222,67831,67828,67829,9828,6273],"class_list":["post-309714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-2018-pyeongchang-olympic-games","tag-anti-doping-program","tag-ben-mcdevitt","tag-independent-observers-report","tag-pyeongchang-2018","tag-wada","tag-world-anti-doping-agency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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