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The current spat between the and the professional sports over the "whereabouts" drug-testing programme shows no sign of abating.

After spending a day in the Swiss city of Lausanne for this week's annual Wada Symposium, it's clear Wada bosses who'd like the testers out of their hair for three weeks a year so Wayne Rooney and co can lie back on their holiday sunbeds and think of England (or Italy or Spain, depending how hard their agents are working.)

Wada finds the question somewhat absurd. Its view is that "taking a break" from testing undermines the whole system, which doesn't seem to leave much "wiggle-room".

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