Editorial.

• Position: Editorial

This issue of ISLJ opens with Emile Vrijman's comment regarding the official statement of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on the Report "Analysis Samples from the 1999 Tour de France" which was drafted by Emile Vrijman and others at the request of the Union Cyclist International (UCI) by way of an independent investigation into Lance Armstrong having been accused of the use of doping.

In this issue, particular attention is further paid to the Council of Europe, European Sports Law, and Players' Agents.

In this context it should be mentioned that the ASSER International Sports Law Centre in cooperation with T.M.C. Asser Press has recently produced three books on these subjects, namely "The Council of Europe and Sport--Basic Documents" with a Foreword by Dr Ralf-Rene Weingartner, Director for Youth and Sport at the Council of Europe, "European Sports Law: Collected Papers" by Stephen Weatherill with a Foreword by Jean-Louis Dupont, Avocat in Belgium, and "Players' Agents Worldwide: Legal Aspects" with a Foreword by Roger Blanpain, who is a Professor in Labour Law at the Universities of Leuven (Belgium) and Tilburg (The Netherlands) and one of the founders and the first President of the global players' union FIFPro.

This issue of ISLJ also contains several papers that were presented...