January 18, 2019 USADA announced today that Michel Carrillo, of Miami, Fla., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has received a four-year sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. In addition to its Olympic and Paralympic anti-doping programs, USADA works with National Governing Bodies (NGBs) in sport to execute anti-doping initiatives like the RaceClean Program…
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January 14, 2019 USADA announced today that Robert Brown, of Haslet, Texas, an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a nine-month suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Brown, 27, tested positive for heptaminol from an in-competition urine sample collected on September 16, 2018, at the American Open Series 3. Heptaminol is a Specified…
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“Of course if accurate, it is a good thing that the signals emerging from WADA are that its group has been allowed into the Moscow laboratory to retrieve the evidence of Russia’s massive state-sponsored doping scheme. We remain vigilant to ensure a full public disclosure and accounting that the evidence obtained on the approximately 9000…
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January 4, 2019 USADA announced today that Carl Grove, of Bristol, Ind., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has accepted a public warning for his anti-doping rule violations. Grove, 90, tested positive for epitrenbolone, which is a metabolite of the prohibited substance trenbolone, as the result of an in-competition urine sample he provided on…
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January 2, 2019 NADO Leaders acknowledge the January 1, 2019 Release from WADA outlining the current status of the management of anti-doping compliance matters in Russia. With a view to its 31 December 2018 deadline for Russia to provide the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) with the critical LIMS data from the Moscow Laboratory, the anti-doping…
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December 20, 2018 USADA announced today that Ryan Hudson, of Sisters, Oregon, an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a four-year sanction for his second anti-doping rule violation. Hudson, 39, tested positive for a long-term metabolite (4α‐chloro‐18‐nor‐17β‐hydroxymethyl-17α‐methyl‐5α-androst‐13‐en‐3α‐ol; DHCMT M3) of dehydrochloromethyltestosterone (DHCMT) as the result of an out-of-competition urine sample he provided on…
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December 20, 2018 USADA announced today that David Pate, of Birmingham, Ala., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has received a four-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Pate, 48, was subject to testing due to his membership in USA Cycling, which maintains the RaceClean Program that works to fight doping in the sport…
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December 19, 2018 “USADA welcomes the introduction of The Rodchenkov Act today. We believe this is a game-changing Bill that will transform anti-doping for the better and forever at a time when the clean sport movement needs it most; given the recent unprecedented athlete outcry against the anti-doping status quo, this Bill is arriving just…
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December 19, 2018 USADA announced today that Laura Zeng, of Libertyville, Ill., an athlete in the sport of gymnastics, has accepted a six-month suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Zeng, 19, tested positive for acetazolamide from an out-of-competition urine sample collected on October 18, 2018. Acetazolamide is a Specified Substance in the class of Diuretics…
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December 19, 2018 TrueSport®, a positive youth sports movement powered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), has announced partnerships with seven additional National Governing Bodies (NGBs) of Sport, joining 16 NGB partners who currently participate in the TrueSport content program. TrueSport welcomes partnerships with the following NGBs: USA Archery USA Baseball USA Bobsled and Skeleton…
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