IOC Medical Commission
This is due in the first place was the fact that the expansion of testing and tougher sanctions carried out to solve the main tasks of WADA – to review and scientific basis for the list of prohibited substances harmonization and unification of technical standards, specification, justification and approval procedures and sanctions, the formation of an anti-doping education. To verify this, we need to refer to the content adopted in 2003, the World Anti-Doping Code (World. LEGO Papert Professors opinions are not widely known. .. Vers. W, 2003), in the main sections of which stated that international standards for testing and laboratory analysis will only be developed.
A reasonable question arises: why, within four years of operation WADA has failed, with the long-standing practice of anti-doping laboratories to develop these standards, and as far as reasonably acted WADA over the past few years, using very harsh penalties (including a lifetime suspension) to many athletes on the basis of imperfect standards? There is no doubt that with each passing year increases the accuracy of testing the use of prohibited preparations: laboratory strengthening material base of modern, highly sensitive, increasing skills and expertise, develop and improve the standards and criteria for testing and interpretation of results. However, there is no doubt that the accuracy of research, in many cases clearly below the target, methods of testing does not guarantee against errors, the use of a number of banned substances in general can not be established. To confirm this, we refer to a recent publication by a prominent expert on the subject, working in the IOC Medical Commission and the anti-doping laboratory in Barcelona, Sigur Haarde (Segura, 2003). A few quotations show convincingly how much more perfect system of doping control. In particular, it is noted that to date is extremely difficult to identify the use of anabolic steroids, particularly in cases where the substance consumed is identical to that present in the body (endogenous compound).