Reassuring. According to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the number of anti-doping controls around the world has started to rise again in recent months, after a long period of reduction caused by the health crisis. The latest figures, released on Wednesday June 16, reveal that 24.430 samples were collected in May 2021 alone by 152 Anti-Doping Organizations (ADOs), the highest number since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 Despite restrictions still in place in some parts of the world, out-of-competition testing is now at a higher level than the same period in 2019. In April 2021, 14.560 out-of-competition tests were carried out, compared to 12.713 at the same time two years ago. earlier. In May, this number increased to 16, compared to 149 for the same month in 13.691. This is the highest number of out-of-competition samples collected in the last 2019 months. Less than 29 days before the opening of the Tokyo Games, the fight against doping therefore seems to have returned to cruising speed.
