American athletes are going to doping control as all others

Objavljeno: 15.9.2014

Since we received a number of questions related to the doping control of American athletes, after the final match between USA and Serbia in the FIBA World Cup, we want to confirm that American basketball players are tested as much as others, that they have been tested before the World Cup and they were tested in the NBA competition. Since the founding of the World Anti-Doping Agency in 1999, namely from the Olympic Games in Sydney all American athletes are tested the same as all the other athletes. Today, there is the World Anti-Doping Code adopted and ratified by all countries of the world and therefore the rules are the same for everyone.

Doping Control Officers of Anti-Doping Agency of Serbia have tested the best American basketball players several times, the last time at the Olympic Games in London, where among others Kevin Durant is tested. The interesting thing is that Stephen Curry (now the play of the American team) played in the best Amrick team in Novi Sad in 2007, when they were defeated by Serbian youth team who become world champions. And doping controls are performed as well.

Otherwise, the USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency) is one of the most respected Anti-doping agency in the world. They are known by processes conducted against Merion Jones and Lance Armstrong, probably the greatest athlete who US ever had.