World Governments Contribute $6.4M To IOC's $10M Anti-Doping Fund

The World Anti-Doping Agency announced pledges of $6.45M from world governments in the fight for the clean athletes which will create a joint fund of nearly $13M. The $13M joint fund represents a 50-50 split between the IOC and world governments that responded to a call to match the IOC funding. China, France, Ivory Coast, Japan, New Zealand, Peru, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Turkey, the U.S. and Sweden have pledged their financial support. The IOC will also administer the balance that remains from the full $10M it approved as part of Olympic Agenda 2020 (remaining balance is $3.55M) as a separate fund for new anti-doping research in the fight against doping. The strategy for distribution of this fund is to complement, but not duplicate, existing anti-doping research programs (IOC).