Knowledge bank: This PowerPoint presentation by the chairman of WADA's Finance and Administration Committee explains in detail the preparation of the WADA Code and the changes from the first to the second draft.

The Norwegian professor, Hans B. Skaset, identifies 11 trends in the development of sport and predicts that in the future sport will be privatised, disengaged from its values and anti-doping has been made obsolete by gene technology.

According to some of the world's leading sports researchers, the war against sports drugs cannot be won.

It is not often that a member of the IOC gets invited to a conference organized by the media, or, if invited, is prepared to accept. So, if I occasionally sound like Daniel in the lion's den, I hope you will forgive me.