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A Canadian privacy investigation has forced the World Anti-Doping Agency to restrict how it uses athletes’ data. A lab technician shows a sample to be tested for doping at the lab that did drug testing for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2015. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

How our research led to a privacy complaint that pushed the World Anti‑Doping Agency to change its rules

International sport organizations must stop ignoring athletes’ data protection rights when regulating sport, including eligibility in the women’s category
Shelby Houlihan blames a pork burrito for her positive drug test that cost her a chance to compete in Tokyo. Charlie Neibergall/AP

Banned from the Olympics for a bad burrito? Anti‑doping efforts shouldn’t start from a position of guilt

Athletes are not the enemy. Cases of extremely low levels of prohibited substances could be referred to a third party for investigation, rather than putting the burden on the athlete.
Uzbek wrestler Artur Taymazov (centre) was recently stripped of his gold medal from the 2012 Olympics due to retrospective drug testing. He also lost his gold from the 2008 Olympics for doping. Dimitris Panagos/AAP

Why drug cheats are still being caught seven years after the 2012 London Olympics

Retrospective drug testing is meant to help deter doping in sport, but will the public become indifferent to drug taking as more and more cheaters are caught?

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