FINA has signed today an anti-doping service agreement with ITA, the International Testing Agency, a non-for-profit foundation which provides independent expert anti-doping services.<\/p>\n
The ceremony was held at the conclusion of the \u201cAnti-Doping \u2013 Ensuring fair play in Aquatics\u201d topic at the FINA World Aquatics Convention, being held in Hangzhou (CHN), from December 8-10. Benjamin Cohen, ITA\u2019s Director General, was one of the speakers in that panel and then signed the agreement with FINA President Dr Julio C. Maglione<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cFINA is very pleased with this partnership. Our International Federation is at the forefront of the fight against doping, and our co-operation with ITA will reinforce our strength and leadership in this area. Together, we will decisively be stronger in this continuous war against cheaters in our Sport\u201d<\/i>, considered Dr Maglione.<\/p>\n \u201cThe ITA is honoured to have been entrusted with the management of several areas of FINA\u2019s anti-doping programme. We look forward to this partnership and the ITA will will work hard, in close co-operation with FINA, to ensure that the Sport of Aquatics and its athletes are clean\u201d<\/i>, Mr Cohen said.<\/p>\n Within this agreement, FINA will keep under its scope the in-competition testing at FINA events, while ITA will be responsible for the out-of competition procedure and the biological passport programme. \u2014 The above press release was posted by Swimming World in conjunction with FINA<\/i>. For press releases and advertising inquiries please contact<\/i> Advertising@SwimmingWorld.com<\/i><\/b>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FINA has signed today an anti-doping service agreement with ITA, the International Testing Agency, a non-for-profit foundation which provides independent expert anti-doping services. The ceremony was held at the conclusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":320894,"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":[184,70382],"class_list":["post-341454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-fina","tag-international-testing-agency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n
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