Anti-Doping Organisations

 

 

USADA - United States Anti-Doping Agency

 

"The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) is the national anti-doping organization for the Olympic movement in the United States. The U.S. Congress recognized USADA as "the official anti-doping agency for Olympic, Pan American and Paralympic sport in the United States." http://www.usantidoping.org/images/clear.gifWe are dedicated to eliminating the practice of doping in sport, and to preserving the well being of sport and ensuring the health of athletes through research initiatives and educational programs." (taken from USADA website: http://www.usantidoping.org/)

 

This website's aim is to promote healthy sporting. The authorities organise campaigns to inform the public - including athletes - about the various side effects of doping and its consequences such as a long ban from games, spending a large amount of time in jail and its other health effects. These health effects not only occur in the body of the doper but also in the doper's future generation. Overall, this website provides a variety of resources from which viewers can gain in depth knowledge about the issue of doping.

 

 

 

World Anti-Doping Agency

 

"The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is the international independent organization created in 1999 to promote, coordinate, and monitor the fight against doping in sport in all its forms. 


Composed and funded equally by the sports movement and governments of the world, WADA coordinated the development and implementation of the World Anti-Doping Code (Code), the document harmonizing anti-doping policies in all sports and all countries." (taken from WADA website: http://www.wada-ama.org/en/)

 

This website's main focus is about the outreach of anti-doping movement aroung the world and the different types of programmes that are used for anti-doping education. The website reaches to a large audience as the athletes can view information on doping while younger people can take part in a quiz to test thier knowledge.The website also provides the the Anti-doping code as well as different languages so as to accomodate different viewers.

 

 

 

International Association of Athletics Federation

 

"The International Athletic Foundation’s (IAAF) primary mission is to charitably assist the world governing body for track and field athletics - the International Association of Athletics Federations - and its affiliated national governing bodies in perpetuating the development and promotion of athletics world-wide.


Through its support of a variety of programmes and projects including educational, scientific, technical, promotional and social activities, the Foundation strives to aid athletes, administrators, coaches, national athletics federations and others to practice all forms of athletics in the best of conditions." (taken from IAAF website: http://www.iaaf.org/antidoping/news/index.html)

 

Although the organisation mentions about anti-doping, this website does not focus much on it as it concentrates much more on other type of information such as competition details, statistics, news and information on athletes. However, the anti-doping of the wesite section has many rules, law codes and many other valuable details for all athletes to abide by when taking part in sporting competitions. Furthermore, it provides information such as doping control statistics and the sanctioned athletes for the enlightenment of its audience.