These days, representatives of the anti-doping met criminal investigators in a pole of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Turkey. During this meeting, there were representatives from national and international drug enforcement agencies such as INTERPOL and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). They debated how science and investigations combined could help protect the clean athlete, according to a WADA press release.

“Thanks to the organizational support of the Turkish Olympic Committee and the Turkish Ministry of Youth and Sport, we were able to host a tremendous first Science and Investigations Symposium. The very fact that we have been able to stage such an event now is I believe a mark of how far anti-doping has evolved in recent years", WADA President, Sir Craig Reedie told : “We expect this Symposium to result in significant improvements in the gathering and sharing of information regarding drugs that are of concern to both sport and wider society. Bringing together such a wide array of experts, with the introduction of the revised Code and renamed International Standard for Testing and Investigations (ISTI) just weeks away, was an important step to take. We were able to share ideas, and crucially learn more about the direction in which we are moving with anti-doping.”