Canada's Montreal information technology company CGI Group Inc. has been chosen to host and support the World Anti-Doping Agency's database, according to a press release by the company on Wednesday.

The world Anti-Doping Agency's database will keep track of athletes to make sure they comply with international doping regulations.

Under the four-year contract, CGI will host the database's infrastructure and provide help-desk services to anti-doping organizations that feeding information on their country's athletes in to the system.

"We are very proud to have been selected for such a highly visible and strategic project," CGI vice-president Pierre Turcotte said in a release Monday.

"The worldwide support that we will be providing from our Montreal center is clearly of a huge magnitude reaching many countries," he said.

Source: Xinhua