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Anti-Doping Agency gains legitimacy by helping uncover scandal.
Byline: Ann Tatko
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ The task awaiting Terry Madden seemed daunting three years ago.
International sports officials condemned their American counterparts, alleging a cover-up in which athletes who tested positive for drugs were allowed to continue competing. The controversy clouded the 2000 Summer Olympics only weeks before the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency began operating on Oct. 1 as America's first drug testing agency independent of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Critics questioned whether USADA could succeed in stamping out doping in U.S. Olympic sports. Madden, the appointed chief executive officer, encouraged a wait-and-see attitude.
Almost exactly three years later, he has proof that USADA works because of the crucial role his agency played in rooting out one of history's biggest drug scandals.
Five track and field athletes have tested positive for tetrahydrogestrinone, or THG, a previously undetected designer steroid.
According to USADA reports, evidence indicates the THG came from a Burlingame, Calif., laboratory, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, owned by Victor Conte.
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