Targeting supply chains key to anti-doping fight: WADA’s Gunter Younger

The World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) has been aggressively pursuing a policy to eliminate the spread of steroids and performance enhancing drugs across the world with its Operation Upstream since 2022 and its Director of Intelligence and Investigations, Gunter Younger, has been the key figure behind the project’s success.

According to WADA’s own admission, the operation under its Global Anti-Doping Intelligence and Investigations Network (GAIIN) initiative has so far managed to dismantle 88 illicit laboratories and seize almost 90 tons of performance-enhancing drugs — or 1.8 billion doses — involving more than 20 countries and several law-enforcement agencies including the INTERPOL and Europol.