23 Facts About USADA

One of the major adjustments made to the Code by USADA included reducing the standard of proof required in doping-related adjudication.

USADA is responsible for implementation of the World Anti-Doping agency's Code in the United States.

USADA collects both blood and urine samples during in-competition and out-of-competition tests, which can occur at any time, at any location, and without advance notice.

Comprehensive, no-notice testing programs like USADA's that are consistent with the WADA Code have often been referred to as Olympic style drug testing.

USADA maintains a group of elite athletes as part of its registered testing pool.

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USADA determines its test distribution plan or the determination of who, when, and where the organization tests through a combination of many factors that are consistent with the WADA IST.

For tests in which blood is collected, USADA contracts trained phlebotomists who work in conjunction with a USADA DCO.

In compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code and relevant international standards, USADA is charged with handling the results management and adjudication process for US athletes in Olympic, Paralympic, Pan American and ParaPan American Sport.

USADA maintains a sanctions list of all sanctioned athletes on its website.

Athletes subject to testing by USADA have access to a number of resources designed to help athletes understand prohibited substances and if specific medications are prohibited according to the WADA prohibited List.

USADA supported research in a variety of areas, including anabolic steroids, growth hormone, oxygen transport-enhancing substances, genetic doping, ethics, and Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry.

Since 2009, the majority of anti-doping research activities previously undertaken by USADA has been assumed by the Partnership for Clean Competition.

USADA focuses on deterring the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport through education efforts that are targeted at elite-level athletes, as well as other levels of sport, youth athletes, and the general public.

USADA created an online resource designed to provide athletes with the best possible information to evaluate the risks associated with the use of supplements.

USADA manages the High Risk List, which is a list of dietary supplements and other black market products that have been known to contain prohibited substances, or claim to deliver the same performance-enhancing effects as prohibited substances.

The list includes products that USADA has previously tested to confirm the presence of a prohibited substance.

Similarly, USADA adds supplements to the High Risk List when the Court of Arbitration for Sport has determined that a supplement likely caused a positive test for an athlete.

In January 2021, USADA announced that UFC fighters would no longer be punished for cannabis use except in extreme cases where clear signs of intoxication were present at the time of a fight.

In June 2012, USADA charged retired cyclist Lance Armstrong with an anti-doping rule violation.

Armstrong sued USADA claiming that USADA did not have jurisdiction to bring a case forward, and that if forced to arbitrate his case, he would not receive due process.

USADA was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles from 1999 to 2005.

Month later, USADA released a 200-page "reasoned decision" in accordance with WADA protocol.

USADA tested 550 existing samples from athletes, of which 20 proved to be positive for THG.