This Friday, 19 April, take part in the social media campaign for Play True Day 2024—a day dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of clean sport. Join World Aquatics and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in celebrating 25 years of working to develop, harmonise and coordinate anti-doping rules and policies across all sports and countries.

How to Participate 

For this year’s Play True Day campaign, at World Aquatics we invite our athletes, our national and continental member federations, governments, major event organizers and other clean sport stakeholders from around the world to pledge your support and join WADA in building the world’s biggest team playing for clean sport; #OnePlayTrueTeam. 

Here's a link to an event day toolkit full of creative assets. 

25 Years of WADA 

This year's celebration of clean sport takes on extra significance as it marks 25 years since the founding of the global anti-doping agency. Here's what  WADA President Witold Bańka had to say about the occassion: “WADA is doubly proud this year to be celebrating its 25th anniversary. Born out of an urgency to tackle the doping problem in sport, the Agency’s creation in 1999 activated the global collaborative movement for doping-free sport. Since then, athletes worldwide have benefited from the commitment of the global anti-doping community – past and present. Development of the global anti-doping system has been and will always be a true team effort. We have come a long way together and we must go further in raising the game for athletes worldwide, so please join us this Play True Day in celebrating ‘25 years as One Play True Team’!” 

Clean Sport | More than Testing at World Aquatics

Through education and collaboration, World Aquatics and the independent Aquatics Integrity Unit are committed to ensuring that all athletes can best prepare for clean competitions.

With the Paris 2024 Olympics coming this July and August, a robust and intelligence-led anti-doping testing programme is being implemented to ensure that all aquatics athletes at the upcoming Olympic Games have been subject to comprehensive anti-doping tests before their participation.

Pre-Games Period | More than 2,000 Out-of-Competition Tests

Prior to the Olympic Games, the International Testing Agency will conduct more than 2,600 anti-doping test attempts on behalf of World Aquatics on aquatics athletes who have qualified. More than 2,000 of these test attempts will be conducted out-of-competition to maximize efficiency and increase deterrence. A particular focus will be put on athletes likely to win a medal and on athletes likely to compete as Neutral Individual Athletes.

A significant portion of the samples collected will be kept for long-term storage and re-analysis at a later stage. Re-analysis provides an additional layer of doping deterrence and widens the detection scope of possible rule violations. As usual, and in an effort of transparency, you can find the most recent anti-doping testing statistics on the Aquatics Integrity website here.