She made the announcement herself: Roxana Maracineanu, the French Minister of Sports, will join the executive committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) next year. “France will join the management body of the World Anti-Doping Agency (AMA). I will sit on the executive committee from January 1, 2022 and for three years, she explained last weekend during a press conference. France will represent European countries as a whole. We want to work on the governance of WADA. We want to continue the project that started in France with Marie-George Buffet (Minister of Sports from 1997 to 2002), then continued with Valérie Fourneyron (Minister of Sports between 2012 and 2014). Et affirm France’s desire to have a presence and actions in the fight against doping. » The return of a French representative to the WADA executive committee will come less than three years before the Paris 2024 Games. Chaired by the Polish Witold Banka, the WADA executive committee is made up of 14 members, with an equal presence representatives of the Olympic movement (5) and public authorities (5).
