India registered the highest percentage of failed dope tests among countries which tested more than 2,000 samples with South Africa being second in the 2022 Testing Figures Report released by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

India tested 3,865 samples (urine, and blood combined) during the recorded period, of which 125 returned adverse analytical findings. 

This amounts to 3.2 per cent of the samples.

What is WADA?

• The World Anti-Doping Agency was established in 1999 as an international independent agency composed and funded equally by the sport movement and governments of the world. 

• Its key activities include scientific research, education, development of anti-doping capacities and monitoring of the World Anti-Doping Code — the document harmonising anti-doping policies in all sports and all countries.

• The organisation’s headquarters is in Montreal, Canada.

• WADA is composed of a foundation board, an executive committee and several committees.

• The 42-member foundation board is WADA’s supreme decision-making body. It is composed equally of representatives from the Olympic Movement and governments.

• The foundation board delegates the actual management and running of the agency, including the performance of activities and the administration of assets, to the executive committee, WADA’s ultimate policy-making body.

• The 12-member executive committee is also composed equally of representatives from the Olympic Movement and governments.

• WADA’s presidency — a volunteer position — alternates between the Olympic Movement and governments.

• WADA’s committees act as advisory committees and provide guidance for the agency’s programmes.

WADA’s Testing Figures Report

• In terms of the number of samples tested, India was 11th on the list but the number of doping violations were higher than major sporting nations like Russia (85), USA (84), Italy (73) and France (72).

• South Africa returned the next highest percentage of adverse findings — 2.9 per cent from 2033 tested samples.

• The third place was taken by Kazakhstan with 1.9 per cent of its testing pool of 2,174 samples returning adverse findings.

• The fourth highest percentage came from Norway and the USA. While the USA tested 6,782 samples, Norway's count was 2,075.

• China tested the highest number of samples — 19,228 — during the period with an adverse findings percentage of 0.2 per cent.

• Germany tested 13,653 samples of which 0.3 per cent tested positive for banned substances.

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