October 18, 2018 USADA announced today that Jeff Tanski, of Palmetto, Ga., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has received a four-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Tanski, 45, 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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October 12, 2018 Today’s BBC Interview with World Anti-Doping Agency Athlete Chair Beckie Scott presents a damning and accurate reflection of the fragile state of the WADA-led global anti-doping system as it exists today. It’s appalling Olympic sport leaders would attempt to suppress athletes’ voices as described by Beckie. Beckie is becoming the most respected…
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The Symposium explored how traditional direct doping detection compares to efforts to discover, verify, validate and adopt sensitive and specific indirect biomarkers to facilitate effective target testing and detection.
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USADA has proudly awarded the 3rd Annual Larry D. Bowers Award for Excellence in Anti-Doping Science to Dr. Matthias Kamber.
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October 4, 2018 “Today’s Department of Justice announced indictment of 7 officers of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) working in concert as “Fancy Bear” is a reassuring outcome for clean athletes everywhere, especially those whose private information was leaked as a result of the despicable and illegal hacking activity. Let’s not…
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October 3, 2018 USADA announced today that Mijail Gonzalez, of Hialeah, Fla., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has received a four-year sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. Gonzalez, 44, 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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October 1, 2018 USADA announced today that an arbitrator from the American Arbitration Association (AAA) has rendered a decision in the case of archery athlete Bob Eyler, of Dundee, Mich., and has determined that Eyler should receive a two-year sanction after testing positive for two prohibited substances at the Vegas Shoot on February 11, 2018,…
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September 28, 2018 USADA announced today that Grace Ariola, of Bloomington, Ill., an athlete in the sport of swimming, has tested positive for a prohibited substance, which was determined to have been ingested by her without fault or negligence. As a result, Ariola will not face a period of ineligibility for her positive test, and…
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September 27, 2018 USADA announced today that Raul Diaz, of Miami, Fla., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has received a four-year sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. Diaz, 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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September 27, 2018 USADA announced today that William Claye, of Chula Vista, Calif., has tested positive for a prohibited substance, which was determined to have been ingested by him without fault or negligence. Claye, 27, tested positive for trace amounts of clenbuterol as a result of a urine sample collected out-of-competition on August 1, 2018.…
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