USA Cycling Finalises Agreement with U.S. Anti-Doping Agency

USA Cycling and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) have announced the official formalisation of the RaceClean agreement which expands the parameters of drug testing in the discipline.

Although the USADA will continue to independently conduct anti-doping, allergy the RaceClean program increases levels of drug testing across competition levels and in- and out-of-competition. In the first half of 2013 alone RaceClean has seen 100 tests at 10 USA Cycling calendar events, and it is expected that testing will occur in the majority of the year’s remaining events.

RaceClean also devotes funds to education and grassroots testing in addition to allowing both members and non-members of USA Cycling to donate to the “RaceClean Fund”.

Of the program’s formalization USA Cycling President & CEO, Steve Johnson, said: “As the program evolved from conceptual to experimental to contractual, both USA Cycling and USADA wanted to make sure we accurately captured the scope and intent of the program in the final agreement. As is often the case, this was a little more involved than anticipated as it ultimately required significant changes in our rider waivers and event contracts.”