The machine is launched. As announced, the IOC and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have begun a joint process of re-analyzing a number of samples taken during the London 2012 and Beijing 2008 Games. An initiative intended to “protect clean athletes . » At the request of the IOC and with funding from the latter, WADA also set up a working group responsible for gathering information and intelligence, identifying possible gaps in the controls carried out just before the Games, and coordinate any additional testing that may be necessary through International Federations (IFs), National Anti-Doping Organizations (NADOs) and, where appropriate, WADA itself. This working group led by WADA, which coordinates the collection of information with the NADOs of Australia, Denmark, Japan, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States, will identify athletes or groups of athletes who will be included in the target groups for testing and those to be tested by the IOC during the four-week period surrounding the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. "The aim of this initiative is to prevent them from competing in Rio the athletes who cheated in London or Beijing, but escaped sanctions because at the time we did not have such advanced analysis methods as today,” declared the IOC scientific and medical director , Richard Budgett.
— Published March 16, 2016
