World Anti-Doping Agency to explain retrospective doping tests to European Union officials

WADA to explain retro doping tests to EU officials

ATHENS, Greece — The World Anti-Doping Agency will explain its methods of retrospective testing to European Union officials as part of an ongoing debate over privacy issues.

WADA vice chairman Arne Ljungqvist said discussions would focus on the eight-year statute of limitation that allows testers to keep frozen samples of athletes’ blood and urine for reanalysis when new detection methods become available.

Retro testing has boosted WADA’s ability to catch drug cheats using scientific advances that may not have existed when the competition took place.

Last month, the International Olympic Committee announced that six athletes had been caught using the new blood-boosting hormone CERA in retests of their samples from the Beijing Olympics.