Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The World Anti-doping Agency (Wada) celebrates its tenth year this week as it finds itself faced with the blunt admission by one of the all-time greats of the tennis world, Andre Agassi, that he took the highly addictive drug crystal meth 12 years ago.

Agassi’s autobiography Open, to be released 9 November, contains the admission, but Wada’s statute of limitations is eight years, so Agassi is technically outside the sports and drugs monitoring organization’s reach.

But its director general, David Howman, says the group has been in touch with the International Tennis Federation about Agassi’s admission that he lied under oath about the drug.

Agassi won eight Grand Slams and all four major tennis titles.

Links to other sites: Associated Press, BBC, International Tennis Federation, Wada

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