The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has issued the IOC Anti-Doping rules for the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games.
During the Games all doping controls initiated by the IOC will include testing for all substances present on the 2006 List of Prohibited Substances issued by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and will be conducted at any time or place with no advance warning required to be given to the athletes.
The rules will be in effect from the date of the opening of the Olympic Village at the end of January until and including the day of the Closing Ceremony on February 26, 2006.
As part of the IOC’s zero tolerance approach to doping, the number of tests will increase by 45 per cent in Turin, compared to Salt Lake City’s 2000 Winter Games.
The IOC says it intends to authorize WADA to carry out doping controls on behalf of the IOC during the Games, outside of Italy, and at non-Olympic venues inside Italy; and it authorizes all anti-doping organizations to carry out doping controls on the athletes within their authority during the period of the Games, prior to the athlete having validated his or her accreditation and/or subsequent to the athlete having finished his or her final competition.
