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The agency works to help individual sporting federations implement testing procedures in the fields of education and research. It also produces a list of prohibited substances [1] that athletes must not take.

Initially funded by the International Olympic Committee it now receives only half of its budgetary requirements from them, with the other half coming from various governments throughout the world.

In 2004, the World Anti-Doping Code was implemented by sports organizations prior to the Olympic GamesOlympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. The Olympic Games or Olympics are an international multi-sport event taking place every fourth year. Originally held in ancient Greece, they were revived by a French nobleman, Pierre Fredy, Baron de Coub in AthensAcropolis in central Athens is home to ancient monuments of Athens — a mainstay of its thriving tourism industry Athens ( Greek: Athina is the capital of Greece, and also the capital of the Attica region of Greece. A cosmopolitan modern city, Athens is al, GreeceGreece formally called the Hellenic Republic (in Greek: ) Hellenike Demokratia , is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. It is bounded on land by Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania, standardizing the rules and regulations governing anti-doping across all sports and all countries for the first time.

In recent years, there has been growing concern that advances in gene therapyGene therapy is the insertion of genes into an individual's cells and tissues to treat a disease, and hereditary diseases in particular. Gene therapy typically aims to supplement a defective mutant allele with a functional one. Although the technology is could lead to abuse in the form of gene dopingGene doping is defined by the World Anti-Doping Agency as "the non-theraputic use of cells, genes, genetic elements, or of the modulation of gene expression, having the capacity to improve athletic performance. For example, gene therapies to treat muscle-. This new form of doping would, in theory, be very difficult to detect and potentially last for many years. The World Anti-Doping Agency has already asked scientists to help find ways to prevent gene therapy from becoming the newest means of doping.

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World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Official Website