The International Testing Agency (ITA) has initiated a targeted testing program on the way to Paris 2024 based on the results and data from Tokyo 2020.
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International Testing Agency (ITA) has launched its global Pre-Games
anti-doping programahead of next year's Olympics and Paralympic which will
involve new levels of targeted testing based on data from the pre-Tokyo 2020
operation. The ITA, operating in anti-doping areas independently on behalf of
the IOC for almost 80 percent of Summer Olympic sports, will monitor the job in
terms of implementation of a large part of recommendations for these sports. The
IOC and the ITA have secured an extended testing jurisdiction over all athletes
registered to take part starting three months before Paris 2024. The ITA will
lead such testing activities to fill potential testing gaps for all sports and
nations through doping controls on its own initiative, as well as issuing
testing recommendations. A Pre-Games Expert Group has been appointed to support
this work, and for the first time the ITA has also appointed a supervisory
panel to monitor its work. The panel will be composed of athletes'
representatives and members from eight IFs and NADOs to join the initiative in
a supervisory and advisory role. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has also
been invited to sit on the panel to monitor compliance.
Source: inside the games website