Heat of doping battle got WADA official through cold winters

A woman walks into the head office for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on November 9, 2015. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File Photo

MONTREAL (Reuters) - For 13 winters it has been a thick jacket and heat of the battle that have provided warmth for David Howman, the World Anti-Doping Agency's director general, who has been a right-hand man for every WADA president.

The one constant in a sometimes fractured anti-doping movement, Howman does not measure his time at WADA in victories and defeats, success and failures, or even weeks and years.