March 31, 2016 USADA announced today that Ashley Paulson, of Pleasant Grove, Utah an athlete in the sport of triathlon, has accepted a 6-month sanction for an anti-doping rule violation after testing positive for a prohibited substance from a contaminated supplement. Paulson, 34, tested positive for ostarine, a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM), as the…
What is Meldonium? Meldonium (Mildronate) is an anti-ischemic drug that was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Prohibited List, effective January 1, 2016. Not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and not available in the U.S., meldonium is classified as a non-specified substance in the class of Metabolic Modulators on the WADA Prohibited…
March 30, 2016 USADA announced today that Hyun Cho, of Harbor City, CA an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a 6-month sanction for an anti-doping rule violation after testing positive for a prohibited substance. Cho, 25, tested positive for dimethylbutylamine as the result of an in-competition sample collected at the American Open…
March 25, 2016 USADA announced today that Michael Buckley, of Reno, Nev., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has tested positive for multiple prohibited substances and accepted a four-year sanction for his rule violation. Buckley, 41, tested positive for the presence of an exogenous anabolic steroid which was confirmed by CIR (GC/C/IRMS) analysis, anastrozole,…
(March 23, 2016) TrueSport, a movement powered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), is pleased to announce that its partnership with Landsharks Running Club, a school program and camp that educates and influences children in the sport of cross-country and track and field, has been extended for a third year. Over the next 12-months, more…
March 9, 2016 USADA announced today that Wayne Lo, of Sunnyvale, Ca., an athlete in the sport of Paralympic table tennis, has tested positive for a prohibited substance, after using a prescribed medication, and accepted a public warning for his rule violation. Lo, 60, tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide and chlorothiazide as the result of an…