June 25, 2010 Gold Winners Recognized in Person for Outstanding Community Programs Gold award winning teachers, coaches and community leaders from USADA’s 2009-2010 True Sport Awards program gathered this week in Colorado Springs, CO, to be honored for their unique programs, and to participate in an education summit with USADA’s education team. The USADA True…
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June 21, 2010 In serving its mission to protect the integrity of competition, inspire a commitment to the core principles of true sport, and preserve the rights of U.S. athletes to compete healthy and clean, USADA works proactively through multiple programs, including: athlete and outreach education; out-of-competition, no-advance notice testing; in-competition testing; collaboration with law…
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June 11, 2010 USADA announced today that Jerren Cochran, of Houston, Texas, an athlete in the sport of Boxing, has tested positive for a prohibited substance and has accepted a suspension for his doping offense. Cochran, 19, tested positive for the diuretic furosemide as a result of an out-of-competition urine sample collection on January 18,…
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June 10, 2010 USADA announced today that U.S. boxing athlete Jesus Gomez, of Lincoln Heights, California, has received a two-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Gomez, 18, refused to take part in a USADA Out-of-Competition doping control test on February 25, 2010. An athlete’s refusal to provide a sample when notified without compelling justification…
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June 8, 2010 USADA announced today that Orien Greene of Gainesville, Florida, and Teddy Gipson of Spearsville, Louisiana, have been sanctioned as a result of their participation in efforts to tamper with doping control, which is an anti-doping rule violation under the USADA Protocol for Olympic and Paralympic Movement Testing and the anti-doping rules of…
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USADA posts test statistics on a quarterly basis, by sport and by athlete, as soon as possible following the completion of each calendar quarter. In response to a high volume of interest in the testing statistics for the professional boxing event held on May 1, 2010 between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Shane Mosley, the following…
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May 20, 2010 In response to many requests for comment to admissions reportedly made by U.S. cyclist Floyd Landis, USADA issues the following statement from CEO Travis T. Tygart: “Clean athletes and those who value clean sport can rest assured that the institutions established to support and protect them are working diligently on their behalf.…
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May 10, 2010 USADA announced today that the independent American Arbitration Association/Court of Arbitration for Sport (AAA/CAS) has issued a written decision that Jessica Cosby, an athlete in the sport of track and field, committed a doping violation and will receive a four-month suspension for the offense. Cosby, 27, of Mission Hills, California, provided a…
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May 6, 2010 USADA announced today that Emilia Morrow, of Rockville, Maryland, an athlete in the sport of Taekwondo, has tested positive for a prohibited substance and has accepted a suspension for her doping offense. Morrow, 17, tested positive for the diuretics Hydrochlorothiazide and Chlorothiazide as a result of a urine sample collected February 14,…
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April 26, 2010 USADA announced today that U.S. Bobsled athlete Randal Jones of Mabelton, Georgia has received a two-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Jones, 40, refused to take part in a USADA Out-of-Competition doping control test on January 26, 2010. Under the rules of the International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation and USADA, both…
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