Report of the Independent Observers: Games of the XXXI Olympiad, Rio de Janeiro 2016

The role of the WADA IO Team is to help instill confidence in both athletes and the public in the quality, effectiveness, and reliability of the IOC’s anti-doping program for the Games. It does this by observing (by random sampling) all aspects of the Games antidoping program, and by meeting with the IOC and the LOC on a daily basis during the Games to provide feedback and to suggest areas of possible “real-time” improvement to the program at the Games, as well as by making recommendations in its post-Games report for potential improvements to the program for future editions of the Games.