Thursday 31 March 2005 The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced on Tuesday, 29 March, that it had appointed 13 members to its newly-formed Athlete Committee. Significantly, two of those members are former World Championship winning athletes, reflecting the continuing tough stance taken by the sport of Athletics in the matter of anti-doping, which most recently witnessed the largest ever number of blood tests carried out at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships.
Portugal's Rosa Mota, the 1987 World, 1988 Olympic and former three-time European champion (1982, 86, 90) in the women's Marathon, and Stéphane Diagana of France, 1997 World 400m Hurdles gold medallist and the reigning European champion at the event who retired last year, are Athletics' representatives on WADA's Athlete Committee. http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=29007.html
