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Anti-doping organisations (ADO) worldwide are ramping up testing as the Tokyo Olympics approach despite complications posed by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) said on Wednesday. “As announced in May, the overall number of samples collected by ADOs around the world is quickly going up despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic,” the global doping watchdog said in a statement. Figures released on Wednesday showed that 24,430 samples were collected in May 2021 by 152 anti-doping organisations, the highest number of samples collected since the pandemic started in March 2020, Wada said. Wada said that even though restrictions on...
