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Richard Vaughan, PhD Researcher Sport Integrity, University of Canberra

The US has exposed the World Anti-Doping Agency’s precarious funding model

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Warren Buffet once famously said: “you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.”

In this context, the US government’s decision this month to withhold its annual funding to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), has exposed WADA’s reliance on the nations with the highest numbers of elite athletes as it aims to lead “a collaborative worldwide movement for doping-free sport”.

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