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When most people think of boxing’s alphabet-soup organizations, the letter groupings that come most readily to mind represent such world sanctioning bodies as the WBC, WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO. However, the familiar standbys have been joined in the public consciousness lately by VADA, WADA and USADA.
Those are anti-doping agencies, and the renewed frequency of references to them in sports stories is not only disturbing but suggests that the crisis involving performance-enhancing drugs in the 1990s and 2000s is making a determined comeback.