{"id":436074,"date":"2020-06-16T12:08:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T19:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=436074"},"modified":"2020-06-16T23:19:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T06:19:30","slug":"wada-publishes-final-version-of-2021-anti-doping-code-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wada-publishes-final-version-of-2021-anti-doping-code-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"WADA Publishes Final Version of 2021 Anti-Doping Code, Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Tuesday published its 2021 Anti-Doping Code and its International Standards<\/a>, both applicable Jan. 2, 2021.<\/p>\n

Preliminary versions of the rules, approved by WADA\u2019s Foundation Board and Executive Committee meetings last year<\/a>, were made public Nov. 26, 2019.<\/p>\n

Among the changes to the WADA code<\/a> are housekeeping for formatting state. The code adds \u201cattempted complicity\u201d to the \u201caggravating circumstances which may increase the period of ineligibility\u201d section and clarifies \u201csubstances\u201d to include \u201csubstances or methods\u201d. The same applies for most of the categories of the International Standards.<\/p>\n

This release of resources also includes the new International Standard for Education. The full resources are available in English and French, WADA’s official languages, while the summary documents are available in English only.<\/p>\n

From the release:<\/p>\n

It is important to note that none of these limited changes affect in any way the sense, meaning or interpretation of the versions approved in Katowice (last November). Rather, they were required to:<\/em><\/p>\n