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Article: USADA reforms anti-doping efforts to alter world's opinion
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- November 2, 2003
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The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency is housed in a coral-colored stucco
building in a nondescript industrial park on Tenderfoot Hill Street
in Colorado Springs.
There is no sign outside. But these days, the organization's name
and reputation blares like neon.
USADA played a pivotal role in what might wind up as the biggest
drug bust in sports history. In turn, USADA has started to fix the
worldwide negative perception of U.S. anti-doping efforts.
"We still have a long way to go to get rid of the cynicism," said
David Howman, director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, a
critic of U.S. antidoping. "This is a very giant step in that
direction."
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