All eyes will be on Brazil in August for a favorite international pastime: the Summer Olympics. But since a bombshell report came out last November chronicling a major athlete doping scandal in Russia, some have wondered how clean the competition in Rio de Janeiro will be. The report, released by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the global organization that promulgates a code of standards governing athletes’ use of performance-enhancing substances and oversees the code’s enforcement by national and regional drug testing authorities, prompted a ban of the Russian track and field team from the games. In late June, problems got worse when WADA suspended the local lab in Rio responsible for testing athletes at the games because of the lab’s nonconformity with international testing standards.
Dionne Koller, professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law and director of its Center for Sport and the Law, spoke to Rebekah Mintzer about the challenges that the international community is facing in regulating the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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