CAMBRIDGE — Rebecca Watts doesn’t want to find what she’s looking for at the Vancouver Olympics.

She’ll be part of the 500-strong anti-doping brigade keeping an eye on athletes from 80 countries. She won’t be collecting blood and urine samples, but she will be working behind the scenes to arrange tests.

“Hopefully there will be no positive tests at the Olympics… that would make me happy,” said the graduate of Jacob Hespeler Secondary School.

Feb. 4 to 28 there will be 1600 urine and 400 blood samples collected in Vancouver

Watts, 25, will spend most of her time behind a desk in Vancouver at the Olympic drug testing bureau.

Vancouver’s Olympic committee will have 130 doping control officers and 70 blood collection officials. There will also be 300 chaperons. The anti-doping budget for the 2010 Games is $16.4 million. That includes $8.9 million for the lab and $7.5 million for operations.

Watts will sneak away to watch some of the ceremonies and competitions. She’ll be a proud Canadian watching her friends on the national luge team carry the flag.

“They’ve spent six years training, delayed school for it. That’s a lot of time and effort. If someone wins a medal over them and they’re enhanced, that would be horrible,” Watts said.

And she’s going to watch some hockey, but she’s hasn’t got tickets to the gold medal game. “I’ll see Russia and Latvia play,” she said.

For the last year, Watts has worked in Ottawa at the Association of National Anti-Doping Organizations, ANADO.

Each country has its own anti-doping body. ANADO oversees testing and arranges for sample collection worldwide. It’s also helping professional sports, like the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball build drug testing into their culture.

“I think it’s an asset to any organization. Anti-doping is a need,” Watts said.

Her supervisors — who have volunteered at previous Olympics — encouraged her to go to work for free in Vancouver. It looks good on your resumé, she said. Even though she’s not sure where her career will take her when her contract runs out at year’s end.

“It costs me my paycheque for a month. It’s priceless to me. It’s 100 per cent priceless to me.”

Watts is confident the anti-doping system in Vancouver is ready to keep the games clean.

Drug testing is a game of cat and mouse, with new ways to cheat forcing countering efforts by sports organizations.

“There are athletes you see go to desperate measures. They’re either at end of their career or they’re an edge away from a world-class athlete and not quite there.”

Watts is careful to avoid saying athletes “fail” a drug test. Her job isn’t to pass judgment.

When “adverse analytical findings” come back from the lab, it’s up to athletes and sports organizations to act. Some athletes may have exemptions that allow them to use certain medications that show up in tests. They have a right to have a second urine or blood sample retested, with their lawyer present, Watts said.

Since 2009, elite athletes have had to ensure that one hour of every day, they are available for a random drug test. It’s been Watts’ job for the last year to track the personal and training itineraries of hundreds of athletes.

In Watts mind, anyone willing to submit to that kind of invasion of privacy must be dedicated to the joy of competitive sport. And if they don’t, they have no excuse if they’re caught.

“You find the athletes… athletes have no idea they’re going to be tested. That adds to the quality of test. The more it’s unknown, that adds to the quality of the test.”