Five changes to the World Anti-Doping Code you may not know about

Along with an increase in ban from two to four years, the World Anti-Doping Agency has introduced or amended several measures to prevent doping

Anti-doping, Tour of Britain 2012, stage four

From January 1 2015, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) introduced its amended World Anti-Doping Code. The headline-grabbing change was the increase in length of ban for athletes guilty of doping from two to four years, but there were other potentially wide-ranging changes made too. Here we summarise five significant alterations and additions.

1. If you help an athlete to dope or cover it up, then you're as guilty as they are

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