These urine and blood samples stem from over 5’000 doping controls conducted on over 4’255 athletes – which means that more than one-third of the participating athletes were subject to at least one doping control. Altogether, 6’200 samples were collected both in- and out-of-competition from the opening of the Olympic Village to the Closing Ceremony. With the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 ending over a month ago on 8 August 2021, the ITA now concludes the Games-time phase of its anti-doping program for the world’s largest sporting event. The last phase of ITA’s comprehensive anti-doping program for Tokyo 2020 is the storage and later re-analysis of samples collected during and in the lead-up to the Games. The vast majority of doping controls were targeted and followed a quality approach based on an extensive risk assessment, performance, and available intelligence. ![]() ![]() Six anti-doping rule violations were asserted to this moment as the outcome of ITA’s testing program. 13 September 2021 THE ITA SUCCEEDED IN FULLY IMPLEMENTING THE ANTI-DOPING PROGRAM FOR OLYMPIC GAMES DESPITE CHALLENGING COVID-19 CIRCUMSTANCESĪ total of 6’200 collected samples from over 5’000 doping controls, more than one-third of the athlete population in Tokyo tested at least once – these are the final figures of ITA’s anti-doping program for Tokyo 2020.
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