The 2021 version of the World Anti-Doping Code (the Code) is
likely to be approved at the fifth World Conference on Doping in
Sport, to be held in November 2019 in Katowice, Poland.
This will be the fourth rewriting of the Code and the
culmination of a two-year process involving stakeholder
consultation and the circulation of multiple drafts of the proposed
Code amendments. 2 Simultaneously, WADA (World
Anti-Doping Agency) is also introducing an International Standard
for Results Management and an International Standard for Education,
as well as revising its six existing international
standards.3
Rather than attempt to revisit old ground4, the WADA
Foundation Board has directed the Code drafting team5 to
limit the scope of the review and focus primarily on new views and
arguments, with the aim of making the Code more effective. While
many of the proposed changes may be welcomed, the effectiveness of
the Code has long been called into question and it does not
