CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -WADA revoked the Moscow Laboratory’s full accreditation in 2015 following the exposure of Russia’s institutionalized doping program.

Detailed explanation-2: -WADA was formed in 1999, following a major doping scandal that shook the world of cycling in 1998. In February 1999, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) convened the First World Conference on Doping in Sport, in Lausanne, Switzerland, which brought together all parties involved in the fight against doping.

Detailed explanation-3: -The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is an international independent agency composed and funded equally by the sport movement and governments of the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -WADA’s primary role is to develop, harmonize and coordinate anti-doping rules and policies across all sports and countries.

Detailed explanation-5: -It was set up on 10 November 1999 in Lausanne, Switzerland, as a result of what was called the “Declaration of Lausanne", to promote, coordinate and monitor the fight against drugs in sports. Since 2002, the organization’s headquarters have been located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.