Highly regarded lab ensures that Olympic athletes are ‘clean’
Anthony Butch is not
an athlete or coach, but he and his team had to undergo their own kind of
Olympic time trials before the Games opened in London. Just a few weeks ago, Butch and his staff at
UCLA’s Olympic Analytical Laboratory were working furiously to process hundreds
of urine samples from members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic team. The testing had to
be done quickly, since a positive result meant that the athlete would have to
be replaced with an alternate. As one of only two drug-testing labs in the United
States accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)), UCLA’s lab split the
samples with the country’s other lab in Salt Lake City. They had 150 days in
which to receive the samples, test them and submit their reports to the United
States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)...
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