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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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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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 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 11, 2018 USADA announced today that Nicholas Saccente, of Springfield, Mass., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted an additional four-month sanction for violating his period of ineligibility. Saccente, 26, initially accepted a four-year period of ineligibility and loss of results in February 2017 after a sample he provided during an in-competition…
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November 27, 2018 USADA announced today that Paulo Miyao, of New York, N.Y., an athlete in the sport of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, has accepted an additional three-month sanction and had his results disqualified for competing while ineligible. Miyao, 27, initially accepted a two-year period of ineligibility and loss of results in May 2017 after a sample…
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November 12, 2018 USADA announced today that Enrique Lopez, of Homestead, Fla., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has received a four-year sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. Lopez, 36, 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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November 7, 2018 USADA announced today that Steven Strickler, of Newport Beach, Calif., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has received a four-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Strickler, 58, was subject to testing due to his membership in USA Cycling, which maintains the RaceClean Program that works to fight doping in the…
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