World Anti-Doping Agency

(Reuters) - Factbox on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) which marks its 10th anniversary on November 10: Skip related content

WADA BY NUMBERS

* Budget:

2000-2001: $18.3 million (11 million pounds) totally funded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)

2009: $25.5 million (15.3 million pounds) funded equally by governments of the world and the IOC.

* Employees: 7 (1999), 58 (2009)

* Presidents: 2 (Canadian Dick Pound 1999-2007, Australian John Fahey 2008 - present)

* Regional offices: 4 (Cape Town, South Africa; Lausanne, Switzerland; Montevideo, Uruguay; Tokyo, Japan)

* WADA approved anti-doping laboratories: 35 in 32 countries.

* Tests carried out by WADA laboratories between 2003-2008: 1,200,390

* Research: Since 2001, WADA has committed approximately $50 million (30 million pounds) to scientific research

MILESTONES

* 1998 - Tour de France doping scandal leads to the first World Conference on Doping in Sport in 1999, where the resulting Lausanne Declaration calls for the formation of an independent anti-doping agency governed by the sport movement and world governments. The agency becomes known as WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency).

* November 10, 1999 - WADA is officially founded with the objective of harmonising and co-ordinating global anti-doping activities. Canadian lawyer and IOC member Dick Pound becomes its first president and holds the position until 2007.

* At the 2000 Sydney Olympics WADA conducts pre-Games testing.

* April 2002 - WADA headquarters opens in Montreal.

* January 2004 - The World Anti-Doping Code, standardising anti-doping policies, rules and regulations and the list of prohibited substances endorsed by the Second World Conference on Doping in Sport in 2003, becomes effective.

* The International Convention Against Doping in Sport is unanimously adopted by UNESCO's General Conference.

* November 2007 - Former Australian finance minister John Fahey is elected to succeed Pound as WADA president from 2008. The Third World Conference on Doping in Sport also endorses an enhanced version of the World Anti-Doping Code.

* December 2007 - The Mitchell Report, an investigative report by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, names 89 Major League Baseball players who allegedly used performance-enhancing drugs.

* January 2009 - Revised World Anti-Doping Code and International Standards becomes effective.

MAJOR CASES

* 2003 - Sport's biggest doping scandal unfolds, linking top names in athletics, baseball and American football to the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO) near San Francisco.

* August 2004 - A bizarre scandal involving Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou rocks the 2004 Athens Olympics the day before the opening ceremony when they fail to appear for doping tests. The two withdraw from the Games and are later suspended by the IAAF for missing three drug tests.

* December 2005 - Former U.S. 100 metres world record holder Tim Montgomery is banned for two years for doping by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The ban is the first based on a "non-analytical" positive. Montgomery never failed a doping test.

* October 2007 - After years of denial, U.S. sprinter Marion Jones admits to using performance-enhancing drugs. Jones, the world's top female athlete in the early 2000s, is later stripped of the five medals -- three gold -- she won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and is sentenced to six months in prison for lying to federal investigators.

* June 2008 - American 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has his two-year ban for a positive doping test during the race upheld by CAS.

(Compiled by Steve Keating in Detroit and Gene Cherry in Raleigh; Editing by Clare Fallon)