AP Interview: EU sports chief WADA must change rules to take privacy concern into account
By APMonday, April 27, 2009
EU sports chief demands WADA changes
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s top sports official is demanding that the World Anti-Doping Agency change its out-of-competition drug-testing rules.
EU sports commissioner Jan Figel says in an interview with The Associated Press that he fully backs the findings of an independent EU panel on data protection and privacy.
The panel says EU nations should ignore the WADA code when it goes against national legislation.
The code requires elite athletes to notify drug-testers of their availability for possible doping checks every day of the year.
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