July 25, 2012 “USADA is fully supportive of the Designer Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2012 and we commend Senator Whitehouse and Senator Hatch for working to create a safer marketplace for all consumers, including the athletes and young people who are often the targets of false marketing campaigns promoting these products. Experience has shown…
July 25, 2012 USADA announced today that David Anthony, an athlete in the sport of cycling, has accepted a two-year suspension for committing an anti-doping rule violation. Anthony, 45, admitted the use of synthetic erythropoietin (EPO) after testing positive as the result of a sample collected on May 20, 2012 at the Gran Fondo New…
July 18, 2012 USADA announced today that Mark Fletcher of Atlanta, Ga., an athlete in the sport of Judo, has tested positive for a prohibited substance and accepted a suspension for his doping offense. Fletcher, 32, tested positive for tetrahydrocannabinol acid, a marijuana metabolite in the class of Cannabinoids, in a sample collected on May…
July 17, 2012 USADA announced today that Joshua Gilbert of Las Vegas, Nev., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a three-year suspension for his anti-doping rule violation. Gilbert, 19, tested positive for Furosemide on March 2, 2012 at the National Championships, and refused to submit to doping control on March 20, 2012.…
July 13, 2012 “The case against all those involved in the USPS Pro-Cycling Team Doping Conspiracy, including Lance Armstrong was not brought lightly. We are well aware of his popularity and the admirers he has on Capitol Hill and elsewhere, but our responsibility is to clean athletes who demand that USADA protect their right to…
July 10, 2012 USADA announced today that Dr. Luis Garcia del Moral (cycling team doctor), Dr. Michele Ferrari (cycling team consulting doctor) and Jose “Pepe” Martí (cycling team trainer) have all received lifetime periods of ineligibility as the result of their anti-doping rule violations in the United States Postal Service (USPS) Cycling Team Doping Conspiracy.…
July 9, 2012 USADA announced today that Hope Solo of Seattle, Washington, an athlete in the sport of soccer, has tested positive for a prohibited substance found in her medication and has accepted a public warning for her rule violation. Solo, 30, tested positive for Canrenone as the result of an out-of-competition urine sample collected…