Britain's Sir Craig Reedie elected Wada's new president with drug cheats set to face longer bans Reedie, who has been chairman of Wada's finance committee since the agency's inception in 1999, will begin his presidency on Jan 1. Friday also saw Wada ratify a new set of rules in its war on drugs by updating the World Anti-Doping Code with effect from 2015. The new code, the outcome of two years of consultation and draft revisions, doubles the standard ban for athletes from two to four years for a first doping offence. It will also hold nations, national anti-doping agencies and international federations to even higher standards of testing, information sharing and education programmes if they are to fulfil their responsibilities under the code. The code also introduces increased flexibility in the punishment of athletes who are found to have mistakenly taken banned substances or who co-operate with doping investigations. Doping policies will be custom-made for individual sports. Fahey said: "This document, this new set of rules, is what you want. Today is a good day for sport, it's a good day for athletes, it's a good day for our future. I firmly believe that the new code has put the interest of clean athletes as our priority. He added: "The challenge we all have going forward is to implement that set of rules, to use those words to materialise those intentions with the actions that we take. We can and we must do better. The ratification of the new code was also greeted by applause and followed no major changes to the fourth draft released last month. The 2015 code will replace the code ratified in 2007 which came into effect in 2009. UK Anti-Doping chief executive Andy Parkinson said: "We are delighted that many of the practices already implemented in the UK are now included in the revised code and standards, most notably tougher sanctions for cheats and a focus on intelligence-led and flexible programmes designed to both prevent and detect doping."