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Wada not wavering on whereabouts

Gordon Farquhar|10:50 UK time, Thursday, 26 February 2009

The current spat between the World Anti-Doping Agency and the professional sports over the "whereabouts" drug-testing programme shows no sign of abating.

After spending a day in the Swiss city of Lausanne for this week's annual Wada Symposium, it's clear Wada bosses don't intend making any concessions to those in football who'd like the testers out of their hair for three weeks a year so Wayne Rooney and co can lie back on their holiday sunbeds and think of England (or Italy or Spain, depending how hard their agents are working.)

Wada finds the question somewhat absurd. Its view is that "taking a break" from testing undermines the whole system, which doesn't seem to leave much "wiggle-room".

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