Decision Against IOC Doping Rule a Boon for Athletes

The problem of doping in sport is as old as sport. Athletes are willing to try anything that might give them even the slightest advantage. To level the international playing field, the International Olympic Committee and various national sport governing bodies created the World Anti-Doping Agency in 1999. The goal of WADA was to create a uniform policy on drugs and uniform penalties for their use.

These policies are not always straightforward. For example, because of the presence of an apparent loophole - athletes who test positive for the first time receive a two-year ban, and therefore may not miss any Olympic competitions - the IOC created IOC Rule 45. Rule 45 states that any athlete with an anti-doping suspension of more than six months is automatically banned from the next Olympic Games following the end of the suspension.

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