Tackling New Forms of Doping: The Legal Challenges

Novel and other non-listed performance-enhancing substances are a challenge for the fight against doping. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and its stakeholders have implemented a number of regulatory measures and tools to seek to tackle these challenges. These measures and tools include the prohibition of substances by category (e.g., to automatically include non-listed substances similar to explicitly listed substances), the identification of metabolites and other markers to lengthen the detection window, the longitudinal monitoring of blood and steroid markers to detect doping based on the physiological changes it induces, retesting programmes years after the event with the benefit of the most up-to-date analytical instruments and intelligence-led investigations. This chapter also addresses some of the particular issues that arise in terms of sanctioning new forms of doping.