HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES OF ATHLETES WITH RESPECT TO WHEREABOUTS POLICY OF WADA

Ms. Kavita Malhotra and Dr Keshav Singh Gurjar

ABSTRACT

Sport was born out of mere entertainment but it has become a real profession and greatest spectacle in the world that produces a lot of money, to make a living even for many generations. The best athletes are bestowed with honors, riches and admired as role models by society. However; those who are left midway are not precisely valued. Today’s athletes always try to give their best performance and improve their physical fitness.  Helping them are refined training methods and technologies.  Never have athletes had more training aids at their disposal.And never have athletes had more opportunities to cheat, mainly through the proliferation of performance-enhancing drugs.  WADA is an independent foundation, which was created to promote, coordinate and monitor the fight against drugs in sport. It has issued a world anti-doping Code and has started out-of-competition testing for the athletes. Athletes need to provide Whereabouts information to the International Sports Federation (ISF) or National Anti-Doping Organization (NADO). The paper aims to discuss the human right issue of an athlete as a moral objection to Whereabouts Policy of World Anti Doping Agency.

Keywords:  Human Right, Doping, WADA and NADA.