just replying to the thread, but I checked the USADA testing site today and sorted by Triathlon and it's woefully short of tests. Bummer

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I asked my friend today, and she has not received results, and is not “on edge”, quite the opposite. She hasn’t brought it up at all.

Having a doping category seems like a great idea until somebody in your family gets into the category.

Would it still be a good idea if someone close to you is setting themselves up to die for everyone's entertainment?

Were those tests done by USADA in the USA? They might have been done by some other group.

I know from a cycling perspective that if I look up the results for say Taylor Phinney on the USADA site I am only seeing some of the tests he might have had that year. If he gets tested by the UCI or the French anti doping organization while racing overseas it won't show up on the USADA list.

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In regards to triathlon doesn't USADA concentrate on Olympic sports? If that's the case I wouldn't expect to see much testing of long course athlete's.

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Kevin

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no but ostensibly you'd think USADA was under contract by WTC to do their testing for them... if they were, and as I understand it, the number of tests would be in the USADA database but the results management would be done by WTC.

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"Yeah, i ain't fuckin' stupid." I laugh at the assumption that we'll just believe them.

Proof positive they know the masses are sheep.

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This is exactly what I would expect in triathlon. I expect there are some who are mid pack and supplementing for other reasons. But the serious dopers are doping precisely because it gives them an advantage over their clean peers - that is the whole point.

They would probably welcome a "doper division" so they could enter into, and more effectively cheat in the clean category.

When athletes at these races test positive for illegal drugs...do they face criminal charges?

not that i have ever heard. just, they're almost never illegal. they're either perfectly legal (with a prescription) or they're legal, but without a prescription. they're prohibited in competition, but usually legal.

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Dan Empfield
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They were all tested at WTC events. Mostly in the US & AUS but in a few other countries as well.

I've had several athletes tested at USAT Nationals after winning the race outright and/or winning their age group and/or placing top 3 in their AG. After checking I didn't see their names either.

Then I went down the rabbit hole of looking for athletes who won their AG at ITU worlds and didn't find any on USADA's site as well.

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If the race is outside of the US, USADA has not authority to be a testing agency. So wherever the race is, the local ADA will be the testing agency unless they go to drug testing contractor separately from that.

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Washed up footy player turned Triathlete.

I was tested after usat nationals and my name is on the usada list linked to earlier in the thread.

I know. I was hoping somewhere, somehow one of them showed up as being tested. I just don't have full faith in WTC, USAT/ITU (especially given these two's lack of concern over AG Doping) as a results management entity

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All the times I've been tested by USADA have been represented on their site. I got tested by the UCI at Master's Track World's in Los Angeles and that isn't on the USADA site, because of course, it wasn't USADA. So, it's not just WHERE you were tested, but by which organization. You can get tested in the United States by organizations other than USADA. So you need to know WHO did the test. The athlete should have paperwork with that information.

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