there's a lot of Lance News Today
seems like some headlines & stories are jumping to conclusions
Lance Armstrong Statement
USADA
From reading About USADA
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) is the national anti-doping organization for the Olympic movement in the United States. The U.S. Congress recognized USADA as "the official anti-doping agency for Olympic, Pan American and Paralympic sport in the United States."
Since its inception in 2000, USADA has worked to preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport and protect the rights of athletes in the Olympic & Paralympic movement in the United States. With the vision to be the guardian of the values and life lessons learned through true sport, our organization's anti-doping programs are comprehensive, including in-competition and out-of-competition testing, results management and adjudication processes, drug reference resources and therapeutic use exemption process, scientific research initiatives, and athlete and outreach education. We continue to work to improve our system and anti-doping endeavors to further protect clean athletes and the health of future athletes.
As a non-profit, non-governmental agency, our programs:
+ Provide deterrence and preservation of sport for athletes, coaches, students, teachers, parents, scientists and more through education and resources;
+ Include numerous protections for athletes to ensure that only athletes who are guilty of a doping violation are sanctioned;
+ Strive to systematically identify and sanction those individuals who are engaged in the effort to gain an advantage over athletes who are competing clean; and
+ Fund pioneering research for the detection of doping substances and techniques, and the pursuit of scientific excellence in doping control.
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I'd like to see a document or something that lists what they can and can't do
Maybe it's one of these
If they are the "the official anti-doping agency for Olympic, Pan American and Paralympic sport in the United States."
How can they have any jurisdiction over the TDF?
Can the USADA retroactively persue an athlete?
How come if the USADA retroactively persue an athlete, find him guilty and strip him of titles and medals, why can't FINA or the olympic committee use underwater video footage or the athlete's own admission to catch, DQ & strip admitted cheaters of their medals like CVDB, even after the fact?
I hope the attention will serve as exposure to a potentially underestimated problem in the event, not how one man soley victoriously cheated out his competition for a decade.
I hope the attention will serve as exposure to a potentially underestimated problem in the event, not how one man soley victoriously cheated out his competition for a decade.
