A progress ? The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published its report on anti-doping rule violations for the year 2019. This is the seventh published by WADA, but the last before the start of the global health crisis. In total, 1.914 anti-doping rule violations were recorded for the year 2019. They concern people of 117 nationalities and 89 different sports. Of these violations, 1537 resulted from abnormal analytical results. The rest, 377 cases, come from investigations and intelligence. With a total of 1.914 anti-doping rule violations, the year 2019 marks a slight decline on the doping front (1.923 cases had been recorded a year earlier). It is mainly dominated by an increase in the number of non-analytical violations. There were 94 of them in 2018, they rose to a record of 377 for the year 2019, an increase of 34%. Comment from WADA Director General, Olivier Niggli: “ Many of these were determined through evidence gathered through intelligence and investigations. It is clear that the work carried out by WADA’s Intelligence and Investigations department and investigators from other anti-doping organizations is producing convincing results. The success of WADA’s confidential sources platform, Break the silence!, is very encouraging. More and more people with evidence of wrongdoing are coming forward to provide information to our investigators"
