The assertion was made by the organisation as they announced their "full support" for the proposals made on Saturday (October 7) at the Olympic Summit here in Lausanne.

Among the recommendations was a call for a new anti-doping testing authority to be set up within the framework of WADA.

It was claimed this would lead to a "clear segregation of duties between the regulatory and the testing bodies".

The WOA have backed the proposals to reform the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) system and have called on Governments to back the reforms by investing significantly more money into anti-doping research and practice.

However, the organisation has called for further measures to be put in place to support the rights of individual athletes to compete if they prove to be clean.

This follows Russia being banned by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) for the Rio 2016 Olympics.

"We believe the proposed changes are a positive step forward in the fight against doping in sport and are gratified to see two pillars of the WOA’s proposed three-point plan strongly supported at the Summit, namely the need to develop anti-doping testing that is fully independent of countries, sports and event organisers, and dramatically increased funding for research into improved anti-doping testing," said Joël Bouzou, WOA President.

"But, we feel this could go further.

"We believe good governance, transparency and proper practice dictates two separate anti-doping organisations: one which carries out the global testing programme and one which has oversight of the testing organisation to police the rules and their practical application and to ensure the highest possible standard of testing is achieved in order to provide a level playing field for all athletes.

"Where we feel there remains a further gap is in the approach towards protecting the rights of individual athletes and we continue to ask for a permanent mechanism to be developed so that if a country or sport is sanctioned their athletes can be quickly and efficiently tested in an uncompromised system and if proven clean can compete at the Olympic Games and other major competitions.

"Consensus on the best way to address this issue must be urgently sought so that clean athletes are not unfairly punished in future.

"We also want to ensure that the voices of experienced athletes who have significant knowledge of the system are heard through the WOA, as they are in a position to add additional insight and perspective to the discussion going forward.”

The recommendations of the Summit are due to be discussed at WADA’s Foundation Board meeting on November 20 in Glasgow.

WADA’s founding President Richard Pound told insidethegames yesterday that the organisation would have to see which of the proposals are feasible to accomplish.

Pound claimed the recommendations made at the Olympic Summit were "long on generality and short on specifics".

Key to the recommendations was the statement that the Olympic Movement would be ready to contribute increased financing for WADA, maintaining their 50/50 funding of the organisation along with national Governments.

However, the increase in finances crucially "depends on the implementation of the reforms by WADA and is based on the results provided by WADA after the review of the anti-doping system".