USADA recommends that athletes use only dietary supplements that have been certified by a third-party program that tests for substances prohibited in sport. USADA now recognizes NSF Certified for Sport® as the program best suited for athletes to reduce the risk from supplements.
DetailsMay 14, 2019 “We congratulate Minister Witold Bańka for being selected to become the next WADA President. We appreciate the opportunity to have met with him recently and to discuss the hope for a strong and independent WADA going forward. We are excited and ready to get to work with him and those committed to…
DetailsMay 10, 2019 USADA announced today that Tayane Porfirio de Araùjo, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an athlete in the sport of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, has tested positive for a prohibited substance and accepted a four-year sanction for her anti-doping rule violation. Porfirio, 24, tested positive for 19‐norandrosterone (19‐NA) and 19-noretiocholanolone as the result of an…
DetailsMay 7, 2019 USADA announced today that Ernest Prempeh, of Somerville, N.J., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a four-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Prempeh, 29, tested positive for 4-chloro-18-nor-17β-hydroxymethyl,17α-methyl-5α-androst-13-en-3α-ol (M3), a long-term metabolite of dehydrochloromethyltestosterone (DHCMT), and other 4-chlorinated, 17α-methylated androgenic anabolic steroids (AAS), as the result of a…
DetailsMay 7, 2019 USADA announced today that Mohamed Omar, of Jackson, N.J., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has received a two-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Omar, 22, tested positive for clomiphene and its metabolite M2 as the result of a urine sample collected out-of-competition on January 29, 2019. Clomiphene is a…
DetailsMay 2, 2019 USADA announced today that Janel Tisinger-Ledkins, of Clearfield, Utah, an athlete in the sport of racquetball, has accepted a 16-month sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. Tisinger-Ledkins, 36, tested positive for octopamine sulfate, a metabolite of octopamine, as the result of an in-competition urine sample she provided at the National Doubles Championship…
DetailsApril 16, 2019 USADA announced today that Nicholas Gibb, of Colorado Springs, Colo., an athlete in the sport of Paralympic cycling, has tested positive for a prohibited substance, which was determined to have been ingested by him without fault or negligence. As a result, Gibb will not face a period of ineligibility for his positive…
DetailsMarch 21, 2019 TrueSport®, a positive youth sports movement powered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), has partnered with Disabled Sports USA (DSUSA), the national leader in community-based adaptive sports, to provide the youth sports community with expert-driven content focused on diversity and inclusion in sport. “We join in partnership with TrueSport because we share…
DetailsMarch 20, 2019 USADA announced today that Joseph Baratto, of Seattle, Wash., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has accepted a one-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Baratto was subject to testing due to his membership in USA Cycling, which maintains the RaceClean Program that works to fight doping in the sport of…
DetailsMarch 14, 2019 Working to impress the importance of clean sport and educate athletes from around the world on anti-doping rules, the Professional Squash Association (PSA) and the World Squash Federation co-hosted four face-to-face presentations by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) during the first two days of competition at the PSA World Championships in Chicago,…
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